--upgradeonly will allow a downgrade if the ebuild for the installed version nolonger exists. The expected behavior would be to not downgrade. Additionally, I can't figure out why it wants to downgrade my KDE. kde-3.1.4 ebuilds are all there still... ~ $ emerge -Upv world >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] kde-base/arts-1.1.2 [1.1.4] +alsa +oggvorbis -artswrappersuid [ebuild UD] app-doc/kdelibs-apidocs-3.1.2 [3.1.4] [ebuild UD] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.2-r1 [3.1.4] +alsa +cups +ipv6 +ssl [ebuild UD] kde-base/kdebase-3.1.2 [3.1.4] -ldap +pam +motif +encode +oggvorbis +cups +ssl +opengl +samba +java [ebuild UD] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.1.2 [3.1.4] [ebuild UD] kde-base/kdebindings-3.1.2 [3.1.3] +mozilla +java +python [ebuild N ] app-office/abiword-2.0.0 +spell +jpeg +xml2 +gnome [ebuild N ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r1 +apache2 +X +crypt +curl -firebird +flash -freetds +gd +gd-external +gdbm +imap -informix +ipv6 +java +jpeg -ldap +mcal -memlimit +mysql +nls +oci8 +odbc +pam +pdflib +png +postgres +qt +snmp +spell +ssl +tiff +truetype +xml2 +berkdb ] app-office/abiword-2.0.0 +spell +jpeg +xml2 +gnome [ebuild N ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r1 +apache2 +X +crypt +curl -firebird +flash -freetds +gd +gd-external +gdbm +imap -informix +ipv6 +java +jpeg -ldap +mcal -memlimit +mysql +nls +oci8 +odbc +pam +pdflib +png +postgres +qt +snmp +spell +ssl +tiff +truetype +xml2 +berkdb Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. delete an ebuild 2. emerge -Upv <package> 3. watch as it wants to allow the downgrade Actual Results: --upgradeonly allows upgrades Expected Results: make --upgradeonly only allow upgrades ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mcpu=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mcpu=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" DISTDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox buildpkg userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/packages-pentium2" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/download/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib nas bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile ruby mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 snmp cdr scanner 3ds acl acpi afs altivec amd apache2 ardour-ksi atlas autofs bidi bindist clamav clisp cmucl cscope curl dga dnd doc dv dvb dvd emacs emacs-w3 ethereal evo expat faad fax fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flash gb gcl gd gd-external glut gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnomedb gps gstreamer gtk2 hbci icc imagemagick imap innodb ipalias ipv6 jack javascript jbig jikes joystick junit justify kerberos ladcca lcd lcms ldam leim libdsk libg libgda lids lirc lmtp ltsp lua lucid mbox mcal md5sum milter mng mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozinterfaceinfo mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpi mule music neXt nviz oav objc oci8 odbc offensive ofx oldworld openal parse-clocks passfile pcap pcmcia pda php pic plotutils pnp ppds prelude psyco qhull rplay S3TC samba sasl skey slp socks5 sox sqlite src tiff transcode transparent-proxy trusted type1 usb vim-with-x wmf wxwin wxwindows X509 Xaw3d xchattext xine xinerama xml xosd xvid zeo"
I can confirm the above. --upgradeonly will also allow a downgrade if the USE flags have changed. This may be the desired behaviour but it's no good to me: # emerge -pU world >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.64 [1.60] [ebuild UD] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 [1.8.6.12] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.4 [1.3.3-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r3 [3.2.3-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r3 [2.3.2-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r8 [2.11z-r6] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.4-r4 [2.8.4-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r3 [3.0.1-r2] [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.5.7 [2.5.6-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/procps-3.1.12-r1 [3.1.9] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5 [5.0-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r9 [4.0.3-r7] [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p2-r1 [3.7.1_p2] [ebuild U ] net-misc/wget-1.9-r2 [1.8.2-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/which-2.16 [2.14] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hotplug-20030805-r2 [20030501-r2] [ebuild UD] net-dialup/speedtouch-1.2_beta2 [1.2_beta3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r4 [1.16.7-r3] (1) I installed the later, masked, baselayout with USE="~x86", at the suggestion of a Gentoo developer. I don't want to `USE="~x86" emerge -U world` because that will upgrade stacks more packages, and I can't `emerge -U` and tell it not to downgrade baselayout. (2) I made speedtouch-1.2_beta3.ebuild myself, and have submitted a request for it to go in; however before that happens, when I ran `emerge sync` my ebuild got scrubbed (no problem, I knew it would) and so as reported above, `emerge -U` wants to downgrade.
For 2, you can put your own packages in PORTAGE_OVERLAY so they don't get removed when you emerge sync.
Thanks for the info, Jeremy; yes I was just explaining how I came to not have the ebuild for the installed version. Re my previous note, just to clarify, obviously I meant ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" not USE="~x86", but you know what I mean. It may still be the wrong thing for individually-picked alternate settings to USE and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to get scrubbed in e.g. `emerge -u world`; can we have some kind of `USE="foo" emerge --i-know-what-i-am-doing-so-dont-you-forget-it package` or `emerge --use-flags-for-this-build-only-and-dont-forget package` (and similar for ACCEPT_KEYWORDS) to indicate to Portage that until we come along later and explicitly say it's allowed to forget our temporarily altered USE or ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, it wouldn't forget, meaning (in my earlier example) that my baselayout wouldn't get downgraded even with `emerge -u world` (i.e. not upgradeonly) whereas another package I'd custom-installed without that extra option would? Or maybe this is just far too complex because of the potential for remembered alternate settings trickling through to dependent packages etc. I suppose I can always try emerge `emerge -pu --columns world | awk -- '$2=="U" { print $4; }'` or something like that. Anyway enough of this babble, as it occurs to me anyway that all this is another bug (feature?) from the original reported one anyway.
Oh I see from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534 that: There is currently no way for ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to "stick" to a package or packages, so it is somewhat complicated to mix stable and unstable packages. "Sticky variables" will hopefully become part of Portage. Those interested should follow bug #3252. So scrub the above babble. I still think --upgradeonly should not downgrade packages.
actually there is now ... you can use per-package USE flags ... see Bug 13616
Merged vs non-existance --- Portage will never assume a merged package is better if there is no live ebuild for it. You can get around this if you really want to. package.use is available in 2.0.50 and ~arch.
