Every time I issue "emerge -auvD world" sdl-perl is listed for emerge. And currently it switches between sdl-perl-1.20.3 and sdl-perl-2.1.2-r1. If I remove the -D switch it doesn't try to downgrade and it also doesn't try to downgrade of I issue "emerge -auvD sdl-perl" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "emerge -auvD world" 2. one version of sdl-perl is emerged 3. run "emerge -auvD world" 4. another sdl-perl version is emege, the installed one is unmerged Actual Results: sdl-perl keeps upgrading to dl-perl-2.1.2-r1 and then downgrading to sdl-perl-1.20.3 and then upgrading again and so on with every emerge. Expected Results: The latest version should always be selected and if it is marked stable it should not be downgraded. Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 18 2004, 17:14:05)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/portageoverlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr emul-linux-x86 encode esd exif f77 fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png posix ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales videos xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_sl" Unset: LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74844 ***
Why is this marked as duplicate of some frozen bubble bug. I think this is a portage bug as masking sdl-perl 2.1.2 also doesn't helo and emerge also updates to it despite of it being masked.
because that's life
Closing to clean up after bugzilla upgrade. reopen if closed in error. Thanks.
clean up bug list after bugzilla update
