Bug 114353

Summary:	emerge -u doesn't do what it should
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Charles Christie <cchris0396>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jkt
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charles Christie 2005-12-03 06:48:05 UTC

Emerge -u should NOT upgrade to the latest STABLE package. What it SHOULD do is
check version numbers. If the version number is lower, skip it. If it is higher,
upgrade it. That way, people who have emerged unstable packages (like
ndiswrapper-1.5, which is required for my system to work properly, and mozilla
firefox 1.5 because I like all the new features) won't have their features
downgraded (or in ndiswrapper's case, have it fail)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
update the system, not blindly replace packages with the stable tree

Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-03 06:52:14 UTC

Please read 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3