Bug 54430 – mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.7: Shows As New Install, Not Update

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description FieldySnuts 2004-06-19 10:22:31 UTC]

I am currently running mozilla-thunderbird-0.6. emerge -pv mozilla-thunderbird shows 0.7 as N (new), when my impression was that it should be U (upgrade).

Am I off the deep end here?

[Comment 1 FieldySnuts 2004-06-19 10:22:52 UTC]

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache notitles sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cdr chroot crypt cups dv dvd dvdr encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pwdb python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-06-19 11:23:52 UTC]

Run emerge as root so it can update the database.

[Comment 3 FieldySnuts 2004-06-19 11:26:29 UTC]

This is what I was doing. I didn't actually emerge it, just pretend. Do you mean go through with the merge?

[Comment 4 Tom Shaw 2004-06-19 16:46:30 UTC]

My version of .6 was labled as:
net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-bin

,7 is labled as:
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin

I just uninstalled thunderbird first then emerged it again.
emerge net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-bin -C

You'll have to do that if it gives you an error about two versions.

[Comment 5 FieldySnuts 2004-06-19 16:47:26 UTC]

Ah I see now, looks like the category or whatever changed. This makes sense now.

[Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-06-21 02:06:24 UTC]

I'm not actually sure if this is a bug. If it's not feel free to
let dev-portage know.

Moz Guys: It's your bug. We're outta here.

[Comment 7 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-06-21 14:55:48 UTC]

Ok, just sounds like a trivial thing... if a package is moved, it shows up as N instead of U.  I suppose it *should* be U, but it doesn't really matter, I think, since package moves shouldn't happen very often.

Thanks for the bug report.