On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:49:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/11/2014 23:29, Gevisz wrote: > > In today's system update I was advised to update sys-devel/automake > > from version 1.11.6 to version 1.11.6-r1. However, just after the > > update the system reported that sys-devel/automake has version 1.13.4. > > > > Is it only me who think that something is wrong here? > > > > The commands and their output is given below. > > > > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1 [1.11.6] > > > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y > > ... > >>>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1 > >>>> Auto-cleaning packages... > > > >>>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > > > > * Regenerating GNU info directory index... > > * Processed 148 info files. > > * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with > > * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information. > > > > > > # emerge --search automake > > ... > > > Nothing wrong there. automake is SLOTted. > > emerge upgraded one of your installed SLOTs, and that slot is not the > highest version number you have. Thank you for explanation. > p.s. make life easier for yourself when searching the tree. Install eix > and stop using emerge --search. eix runs out a gazillion times faster :-) As fas as I remember, I have eix installed but used only once. :) Have to re-read its documentation first.
