19936 – Sylpheed downgrade 0.8.9 -> 0.8.5 with or without -U flag

Bug 19936 - Sylpheed downgrade 0.8.9 -> 0.8.5 with or without -U flag

Summary: Sylpheed downgrade 0.8.9 -> 0.8.5 with or without -U flag

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	SpanKY

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Reported:	2003-04-25 09:05 UTC by Narada Sage
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Narada Sage 2003-04-25 09:05:01 UTC

$ emerge -UDup world
[ebuild    UD] net-mail/sylpheed-0.8.5-r1 [0.8.9]

Firstly, an -U still shows a downgrade and secondly, such a drastic drop in
version number for sylpheed seems slightly odd.  What is the reason for it?

$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/
http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ "
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 3dnow aalib acpi alsa avi cdr cups directfb dvd encode fbcon gif gtk
gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg libwww mmx mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib
png python qt quicktime readline sdl sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype usb X xml
xml2 xmms"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fforce-addr"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fforce-addr"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-25 09:22:57 UTC

vapier: you delete a stable version

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-04-25 16:10:33 UTC

when i was pruning that dir i remembered leaving 4 ebuilds ... guess i removed 0.8.9 by accident, sorry for the trouble