Bug 199415

Summary:	Constant Up and downgrading between dev-lang/R-2.2.1 and dev-lang/R-2.2.1-r1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Weiss <gg.alex.weiss>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex Weiss 2007-11-17 06:04:51 UTC

Recently when doing and emerge -uD world, the package dev-lang/R will want to be upgraded to 2.2.1-r1 and then after a later emerge --sync it will want to be downgraded again. This has happened several times, so I imagine there's a circular dependency of some sort.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge --sync
2.emerge -uD world
3.

Actual Results:  
It wishes to either upgrade to R-2.2.1-r1 or downgrade to R-2.2.1 depending on which is presently installed

Expected Results:  
Not constantly cycle between the two versions of R

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-17 09:27:05 UTC

Post the actual emerge output both on upgrade and downgrade. Cannot help without any information available, sorry.

Comment 2 Alex Weiss 2007-11-17 09:39:43 UTC

What happens is that if I type in emerge -uDp world it says:

[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/R-2.2.1-r1 [2.2.1]

Later, after emerging this, and, I think, emerge --synch'ing, I get this when I emerge -uDp world.

[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/R-2.2.1 [2.2.1-r1]

Is this what you were looking for?

Alex

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-17 09:54:37 UTC

No, not really. We need to know which package is causing this and you didn't post any context whatsoever.