472814 – sys-apps/portage: upgrade is treated like a downgrade (pre -> beta)

Bug 472814 - sys-apps/portage: upgrade is treated like a downgrade (pre -> beta)

Summary: sys-apps/portage: upgrade is treated like a downgrade (pre -> beta)

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	PMS/EAPI

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Reported:	2013-06-10 06:24 UTC by Pavel Volkov
Modified:	2013-06-10 06:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Pavel Volkov 2013-06-10 06:24:54 UTC

While updating @world, this was the line shown

[ebuild     UD ] net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1_p20130605 [1.1.0_pre20121004-r1] USE="X alsa channels client cups directfb ffmpeg gstreamer jpeg sse2 xinerama xv -debug -doc -pulseaudio -server% -smartcard {-test%}" 6,521 kB

It is an update, but is displayed like downgrade.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-06-10 06:50:18 UTC

According to the specification, the ordering is _alpha < _beta < _pre < _rc < _p:

   http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-29069r6