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Bug 106883

Summary: "emerge -uavtD world" reports a downgrade, but it should report an upgrade
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Andre Kloth <bugs-gentoo>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Andre Kloth 2005-09-22 06:13:38 UTC
# emerge -uavtD world

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies                              ...done!          
[ebuild     U ] net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.9.3 [3.8.3-r4] +ipv6 +ssl 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] sys-process/lsof-4.76 [4.75] -static 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] net-firewall/fwbuilder-2.0.9 [2.0.8] +nls 1,351 kB 
[ebuild     U ]  net-libs/libfwbuilder-2.0.9 [2.0.8] +snmp +ssl 275 kB 
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r3  +X +apache2 +berkdb -crypt +curl
-debug +doc -fdftk +firebird -flash -freetds +gd -gd-external +gdbm -gmp
-hardenedphp +imap -informix +ipv6 +java +jpeg -kerberos +ldap -mcal -memlimit
-mssql +mysql +nls -oci8 -odbc +pam +png -postgres +snmp +spell +ssl +tiff
+truetype +xml2 -yaz 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] net-p2p/mldonkey-2.6.4-r2 [2.6.3] -batch +doc +gd -gtk -guionly
-mozilla +threads 0 kB 
[nomerge      ] net-nds/jxplorer-3.1  +doc 
[nomerge      ]  www-servers/axis-1.2_rc2  -debug +doc +jikes 
[ebuild    FU ]   dev-java/sun-jimi-1.0-r1 [1.0] +doc 3,790 kB 
[ebuild     UD] net-wireless/aircrack-2.3 [2.23] 0 kB 
[...]

IMO aircrack shows an update.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -av aircrack

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies  ...done!
[ebuild     UD] net-wireless/aircrack-2.3 [2.23] 0 kB 

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Yes
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-wireless/aircrack-2.3 to /
[...]
Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-22 06:25:38 UTC
3 < 23 
 
This is just a change (or perpetual stupidity) in upstream's versioning.