Bug 157938 – flex-2.5.33-r1 seen as newer than flex-2.5.4a-r6

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED INVALID

[Description Ludvig Ericson 2006-12-12 10:27:46 UTC]

Portage thinks never flex version is older, see below

saga ~ # emerge =sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6 [2.5.33-r1] USE="-build% -static (-nls%*)" 386 kB

[Comment 1 Ludvig Ericson 2006-12-12 10:28:09 UTC]

Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:30:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i386-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.3.6, 2.4.4, 2.5-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant-core"
ARCH="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CLASSPATH="."
CLEAN_DELAY="5"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CVS_RSH="ssh"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
DCCC_PATH="/usr/lib/distcc/bin"
DISTCC_LOG=""
DISTCC_VERBOSE="0"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
ELIBC="glibc"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --verbose"
EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}"
GCC_SPECS=""
GDK_USE_XFT="1"
GENERATION="2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/"
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1"
G_FILENAME_ENCODING="UTF-8"
HOME="/root"
INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i386-pc-linux-gnu/2.17/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
JAVAC="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin/javac"
JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03"
JDK_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03"
KDEDIRS="/usr/kde/3.5:/usr:/usr/local"
KERNEL="linux"
LADSPA_PATH="/usr/lib/ladspa"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LESS="-R -M --shift 5"
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
LINGUAS="en se"
LOGNAME="root"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i386-pc-linux-gnu/2.17/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/qt/3/doc/man"
OLDPWD="/usr/local/portage/sys-devel/flex"
OPENGL_PROFILE="nvidia"
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin"
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PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc s390 amd64 x86 ppc64 x86-fbsd m68k arm sparc sh mips ia64 alpha ppc-macos hppa sparc-fbsd"
PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000"
PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/bin"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_DEBUG="0"
PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="syslog"
PORTAGE_GID="250"
PORTAGE_INST_GID="0"
PORTAGE_INST_UID="0"
PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
PWD="/root"
PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym"
QMAKESPEC="linux-g++"
QTDIR="/usr/qt/3"
RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}"
ROOT="/"
ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin"
RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm"
SANE_CONFIG_DIR="/etc/sane.d"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
SHLVL="1"
STAGE1_USE="nptl nptlonly unicode"
SUDO_COMMAND="/bin/bash"
SUDO_GID="100"
SUDO_UID="1000"
SUDO_USER="toxik"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
TERM="xterm"
USB_DEVFS_PATH="/dev/bus/usb"
USE="x86 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libg++ linguas_en linguas_se mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses njb nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session smp spell spl sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xinerama xml xorg xv zlib"
USER="root"
USERLAND="GNU"
USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS"
USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND"
USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv"
VMHANDLE="blackdown-jdk-1.4.2"
XARGS="xargs -r"
_="/usr/bin/emerge"

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-12-12 10:29:59 UTC]

flex-2.5.4a is newer? Since when?

[Comment 3 Ludvig Ericson 2006-12-12 10:43:34 UTC]

D'oh. Sorry.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-12-12 11:34:04 UTC]

Closing :)