59099 – on emerge -U world, portage installs an older version than the present

Bug 59099 - on emerge -U world, portage installs an older version than the present

Summary: on emerge -U world, portage installs an older version than the present

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-08-01 14:42 UTC by Roie Kerstein
Modified:	2004-08-01 14:45 UTC (History)
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Description Roie Kerstein 2004-08-01 14:42:33 UTC

I have mplayer pre5-r2 installed on my machine.
Today I did emerge -pvUD world.
Portage tried to install mplayer pre4-r7, which is an older version of the one I have on my machine, but a stabke one. pre5-r2 is a testing version. however, I used the -U flag, so portage must not downgrade software, but it did.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge mplayer
2.emerge -pvU world
3.

Actual Results:  
portage offered to install mplayer pre4-r7 

Expected Results:  
portage should not offer to install mplayer at all, for the lateset version is 
already installed.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-01 14:45:03 UTC

-U is deprecated, use /etc/portage/package.* instead.