after my daily portage sync tomorrow, emerge wants to upgrade the following packages gwenhwyfar portage # emerge -puvD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-forensics/chkrootkit-0.44 [0.43-r4] -debug 37 kB [ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.1.0.1 [6.0.7.1] +X +cups -debug +graphviz +jbig +jpeg +lcms +mpeg +perl +png +tiff +truetype +wmf +xml2 4,429 kB [ebuild U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8-r1 [0.2.0_pre8] 0 kB [ebuild U ] games-action/tuxkart-0.4.0 [0.2.0] 4,816 kB [ebuild U ] app-arch/cabextract-1.1 [1.0] 183 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/gd-2.0.30 [2.0.28] +X +jpeg +png +truetype 569 kB [ebuild U ] x11-misc/xchm-0.9.4 [0.9.3] +doc 390 kB Total size of downloads: 10,426 kB If you look at the second entry (imagemagick) portage wants to upgrade imagemagick (it display the U flag between the brackets) , but according to the version numbers it displays, this is a downgrade from v. 6.1.0.1 to v. 6.0.7.1. There may something wrong with the comparison of version numbers within portage, or the display of the upgrade/downgrade flags. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u world 2. 3. Actual Results: portage wants to upgrade imagemagick, which would actually a downgrade Expected Results: portage should either leave the particular package alone, or should display the downgrade flag within the brackets. gwenhwyfar portage # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -fforce-addr -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -Wall" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -fforce-addr -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -Wall" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages nostrip sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib accessibility acl acpi aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib caps cdr cjk crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbase dbx dedicated dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr emacs encode esd ethereal evo exif f77 fam fbcon fdftk fftw flac flash foomaticdb ftp gb gd gdbm ggi gif ginac gmp gnome gnutls gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq imagemagick imlib jabber jack java jikes joystick jpeg junit kde ladcca lcms libgda libwww mad maildir mcal mhash mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg mpi msn mysql nas ncurses netcdf nls nptl odbc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic pie plotutils png posix ppds python qhull qt quicktime readline samba sdl session shared slang slp soap sockets speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb videos wddx wmf wxwindows x86 xine xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib"
The number between the brackets is the version that is installed [6.0.7.1], the number after the packagename is the version portage wants to install (6.1.0.1). 6.1.0.1 is a higher version then 6.0.7.1 so the U-flag is correct. Please close this bug as invalid.
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oh uh, sorry, you are definitely right... i must be somehow confused when writing this sorry for wasting anybody's time
