On Friday 03 Feb 2017 22:00:11 Dale wrote:
> Jörg Schaible wrote:
> > Dale wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> >> Portage lock?  Sometimes, my brain does that too.  lol
> > 
> > Hehe.
> > 
> >> I thought about it after I hit send but figured you would get the
> >> thought, maybe you had one or the other in a mask/unmask file or
> >> something that resulted in a conflict?  I was sort of thinking it but
> >> didn't type it in for some reason.  Still, if you did the same command I
> >> posted, you would have seen the difference and thought on it.  Generally
> >> if there is a difference like that, it's because of a local setting, or
> >> a change in the tree due to different sync time, which would give the
> >> idea of syncing again.
> > 
> > Again the same issue on another box:
> > 
> > =============== %< ==================
> > $ equery l -p boost boost-build
> > 
> >  * Searching for boost ...
> > 
> > [-P-] [  ] dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0
> > [IP-] [  ] dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.58.0-r1:0/1.58.0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.59.0:0/1.59.0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.60.0:0/1.60.0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.61.0:0/1.61.0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.61.0-r1:0/1.61.0
> > [-P-] [  ] dev-libs/boost-1.62.0-r1:0/1.62.0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-libs/boost-1.63.0:0/1.63.0
> > 
> >  * Searching for boost-build ...
> > 
> > [-P-] [  ] dev-util/boost-build-1.55.0:0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/boost-build-1.55.0-r1:0
> > [IP-] [  ] dev-util/boost-build-1.56.0:0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/boost-build-1.58.0:0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/boost-build-1.59.0:0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0:0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/boost-build-1.61.0:0
> > [-P-] [  ] dev-util/boost-build-1.62.0-r1:0
> > [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/boost-build-1.63.0:0
> > =============== %< ==================
> > 
> > Portage should be capable of an update.
> > 
> >> Anyway, glad it is going.  That's what matters.
> > 
> > Yep, glad that I have a solution for it now.
> > 
> > - Jörg
> 
> That is really weird.  That looks like exactly the same output I have
> and mine updated just fine.  At least, I don't recall having issues.  I
> read a couple other posts where people were having to run the same
> command more than once to get portage to find a upgrade path.  I wonder,
> does emerge/portage/tree have a hiccup somewhere?  Is this a bug that
> hasn't quite had a finger put on it??
> 
> Weird.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

From what I have seen when there are two stable versions of the same package, 
portage needs to be told which one to install.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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