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Bug 7637 - Emerge Clean is uninstalling the latest versions
Summary: Emerge Clean is uninstalling the latest versions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
URL: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.ph...
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Reported: 2002-09-07 21:14 UTC by Techie2000
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Techie2000 2002-09-07 21:14:55 UTC
The URL is a link to the forum post where I originally had the problem. However
after doing several things to try to fix it, it own't work. So it's a bug.
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-11 04:11:49 UTC
Still an issue? Check package.mask to ensure things aren't masked out.
That would make the packages downgrade.
Comment 2 Techie2000 2002-10-12 19:06:32 UTC
After manually unmerging the protected (old) versions the problem went away. If
no one else has the same bug then I see no reason to leave this bug report open...
Comment 3 Michael J. Haehnel 2002-10-18 17:38:07 UTC
Same Problem here:
1) I installed icewm-1.2.2 and gkrellm-2.0.4 manually (both were not maked)
   after that i tried an emerge --update world and now emerge will downgrade to
   the old version. (Don
Comment 4 Michael J. Haehnel 2002-10-18 17:38:07 UTC
Same Problem here:
1) I installed icewm-1.2.2 and gkrellm-2.0.4 manually (both were not maked)
   after that i tried an emerge --update world and now emerge will downgrade to
   the old version. (Don´t know why)
2) I got nearly the same problem with an other package. The
   emerge --update world --deep also wants to downgrade. This time i found
   the reason: There was in /var/cache/edb a file whith an "not optimal dep 
   definition" - this file just want´s a specific (=package). After fixing this
   (with >=package) emerge works fine again.
@Techie2000
   Manually unmerging the old versions doesn´t solve this problem (for me - or
   i am blind) 
-> i am using gentoo 1.4-rc1
Comment 5 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-20 03:16:17 UTC
You are 'manually' installing.
What does that mean.
There is a new masking scheme using ~.
I'm guessing you're forcing installs on masked
packages, and then emerge is trying to install the
unmasked ones.
Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-24 14:46:14 UTC
Need responses to provide fixes. Reopen if this is still an issue.