How do you determine the cause of a downgrade? Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think) no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and now emerge wants to downgrade xorg-server from 1.20.9 to 1.20.8-r1:
Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild rR ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20200515::gentoo USE="dri sna udev uxa xvmc -debug -tools" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] www-client/google-chrome-85.0.4183.83::gentoo [84.0.4147.135::gentoo] USE="(-selinux)" L10N="am ar bg bn ca cs da de el en-GB es es-419 et fa fi fil fr gu he hi hr hu id it ja kn ko lt lv ml mr ms nb nl pl pt-BR pt-PT ro ru sk sl sr sv sw ta te th tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW" 31,175 KiB [ebuild rR ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.9.1::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild rR ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.30.0::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild r UD ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1:0/1.20.8::gentoo [1.20.9:0/1.20.9::gentoo] USE="elogind ipv6 (libglvnd) udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -suid -systemd -unwind -wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" 0 KiB Total: 5 packages (1 upgrade, 1 downgrade, 3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 31,175 KiB AFAICT both 1.20.9 and 1.20.8-r1 are stable on amd4 (the only difference between the two .ebuild files are the keywords for hppa and ppc). I can't find any ebuilds that appear to depend on the downgraded version. -- Grant
