Bug 29254 – updates for portage advertised even if there is nothing to update

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 27283
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Alex Riesen 2003-09-21 02:15:23 UTC]

I got the message after emerge sync:
 * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
 * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
 * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.
But, when I tried to update it:
$ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" USE="-java -esd -cups" emerge -p portage

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r4  

Note the "R". No updates, as it seems. Consequent emerge -Up portage produced:
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!

That is - nothing.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-09-21 02:29:21 UTC]

Does it want to downgrade portage if you set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ?

[Comment 2 Alex Riesen 2003-09-21 02:50:33 UTC]

Yes. It clears the issue up, I think :)

$ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge -p portage

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r3 [2.0.49-r4] 

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-09-21 03:11:24 UTC]

Nick, maybe we should change the check as normally there is no reason to downgrade portage (and the message is misleading). Marking this as invalid for now.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-09-21 09:10:24 UTC]

See Bug 27283

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-09-21 09:10:30 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27283 ***