Portage incorrectly reports some packages that should be updated (same slot) as new. This applies to emerge -u, emerge -U, and emerge foo. Note this bug seems to have appeared before some time last year. See bug 8128. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -s pango 2. emerge -p pango 3. Actual Results: emerge -s pango * x11-libs/pango Latest version available: 1.2.5 Latest version installed: 1.2.3 Size of downloaded files: 845 kB Homepage: http://www.pango.org/ Description: Text rendering and layout library emerge -p pango These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] x11-libs/pango-1.2.5 Expected Results: packages that are updates to previously installed packages should be reported as such. Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21_rc6-gss _06_11_03) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21_rc6-gss_06_11_03 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" 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/texmf/tex/ge neric/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pu b/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg mad mikmod mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa slang readline aalib svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl cdr acpi dga dnd emacs fbcon flash fluidsynth gtk 2 jack jack-caps jack-tmpfs ladcca matrox moznocompose moznoirc moznomail sox ss e tiff usb -oss -apm -cups -kde -gnome -libg++ -nls -gdbm -berkdb -arts -tetex - bonobo -mozilla -ldap"
I'm noticing this with mm-sources also. Using portage-2.0.49-r13
bleh, ignore me.. mm-sources are sloted. Wheres my caffeine?
see bug 30166 for a more recent report of this
Differing Slots are new versions.
