On 2008-08-03, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suddenly (starting today) "emerge -auvtND world" wants to
> install an older version of gentoo-sources (2.6.25-r6), and I
> can't figure out why:
>
> # emerge --search gentoo-sources
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> Latest version available: 2.6.25-r7
> Latest version installed: 2.6.25-r7
> Size of files: 47,585 kB
> Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
> Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the
> 2.6 kernel tree
> License: GPL-2
>
>
> # emerge -auvtND world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies /
> ... done!
> [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r6 USE="-build -symlink"
> 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB
I finally gave up and let it install the old version of
gentoo-sources (and then I went and deleted all of the files).
It's got to be a bug in portage, but I can't figure out what
triggers it. My other systems don't do it, and I can't find any
differences between the systems that seem relevant.
--
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