I did an emerge acroread, expecting to see an upgrade from version 5.06(-r3) to 5.07. The emerge went well enough, but it turns out that version installed was an even older one than the one replaced (I went from 5.06(-r3) to 5.05). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
please provide #emerge info #emerge -p acroread
Hhhmmm ... this seems to be some sort of screw-up on Adobes part. I tried manually downloading the file linux-507.tar.gz. It's clearly the same file that's used by the emerge (via a norwegian mirror). The resulting acroreader presents itself as "x86 linux 5.0.5 Apr 25 2002 11:55:26". So either Adobe posted the wrong file (albeit with the right name), or they forgot to update embedded version info in the executable. Additional info: bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-bzImage2 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/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="/usr/portage_tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde opengl mozilla cdr alsa -oss -motif" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache fixpackages" bash-2.05b# emerge -p acroread These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-text/acroread-5.07
As Acroread 5.0.8 was released recently and it displays the version correctly (and Adobe distributes 5.0.7 as it is), I think we can leave this problem as WONTFIX.
