| Summary: | portage 2.0.49-r15 reports emerge -up ebuild as N, should be UD | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Kevyn Shortell (RETIRED) <trance> |
| Component: | Unclassified | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
For clarification, my issue is it is wanting to downgrade an ebuild that is installed on my box, but it's tagging it as N(ew). No a bug. Kernel modules get special kernel-name slots and therefore each one is new when installed for a particular kernel. Not anything I can do about this one. Dynamic slots cannot be determined before the package is merged. |
emerge rsync'd than ran emerge -up world. saraphane portage # emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N saraphane portage The only issue with that is, I have -r4 installed. #emerge -s nvidia-kernel Searching... [ Results for search key : nvidia-kernel ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * media-video/nvidia-kernel Latest version available: 1.0.4496-r3 Latest version installed: 1.0.4496-r4 Size of downloaded files: 5,005 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA's X driver ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 Spoke to seemant he said log it as a bug =) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: System is a X86 stable profile.