Bug 28138

Summary:	Emerge mistaken a Downgrade with an Upgrade
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Isam Bayazidi <isam>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Isam Bayazidi 2003-09-07 18:15:49 UTC

This bug is probably related to Bug 23773
I have media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 installed, I emerged it while setting
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to "~x86", my system is normally at x86 (Stable), but everytime
I attempt to do an emerge -Uvp world the following line show up:
[ebuild     U ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4363-r3 [1.0.4496]

Suggesting this Upgrade while actually it is a downgrade.. My guess is that
emerge has problem calculating which is a larger number for version.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-07 18:56:32 UTC

Did you change kernels after emerging nvidia-kernel ? If yes it is a SLOT change and the kernel modules would be installed for the new kernel and it's not a downgrade for portage.

Comment 2 Isam Bayazidi 2003-09-08 01:52:21 UTC

No, I did not change the kernel, infact, this update appeared a minute after I emerged media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 .. so it is related to the fact that nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 is "~x86" while my default system setting is "x86". 
and I only have one nvidia-kernel installed, so it is not a slot.

Comment 3 Josh Attoun 2003-10-03 14:22:01 UTC

I get this too.  

emerge -up world yields:

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[ebuild     U ] gnome-extra/gnome-vfs-extras-0.99.10 [0.99.11]
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Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-24 14:18:31 UTC

This is caused by slots.