I installed apache2 a while back and ever since then, portage has insisted that I should upgrade from Apache 2.0.45 to 1.3.27-r3. While Apache 2 is keyworded as ~x86, apache 1.3.27-r3 should show up as a downgrade, not an upgrade. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge apache 2.0.45 2. Try emerge -Up apache Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-www/apache-1.3.27-r3 [2.0.45] Expected Results: Emerge should have offered no package for Upgrade Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /etc/X11/serverconfig /etc/X11/starthere /etc/X11/sysconfig /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline bonobo svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl python imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl X acpi -arts perl -qt samba -kde gnome gtk2 sse usb mozilla cups moznomail moznocompose moznoirc -esd" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
mixing and matching things isnt entirely a clean affair. there are strange quirks and artifacts, which you're seeing.
our bugzilla is screwed up.