Bug 31902 – New portage suddenly marks gentoo-sources as N(ew)

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description MAL 2003-10-24 03:01:12 UTC]

6 month old system, wants to upgrade gentoo-sources, but marks it as N(ew) in
emerge -puv world.

$ emerge -pP gentoo-sources

>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:

 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
    selected: 2.4.20-r5 2.4.20-r6
   protected: 2.4.20-r7
     omitted: none


$ emerge -puv world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
...
[ebuild  N    ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8  -build +crypt -evms2 -aavm
-usagi -doc -tcltk
...


Just updated to the latest Portage, and it still does it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium II (Klamath)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox distcc usersandbox notitles fixpackages"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 aalib acl apache2 apm crypt cups curl dvd encode ethereal gd gif guile
java jikes jpeg lirc maildir mikmod mmx mpeg mpi mysql nas ncurses nls odbc
oggvorbis oss pam png ruby samba sasl slp spell ssl tiff truetype usb wmf xml
xml2 zlib"

[Comment 1 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-10-24 06:13:33 UTC]

That's corretct. All kernel version are using a different slot. Earlier we
displayed a slot upgrade as UD, this got changed to N some time ago.

[Comment 2 MAL 2003-10-24 06:30:25 UTC]

Apologies for assuming this was a bug.  Where was it announced?

[Comment 3 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-10-24 06:54:09 UTC]

apparently those changes are only mentioned in the ChangLog
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/portage/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=gentoo-src&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Search for portage-2.0.49-r6.