Hi, generally there's nothing wrong in downgrading packages and means that the version you're using has been masked for some reason. You should check if the version you currently have is masked for your architecture. If yes emerge is ok and that's a normal behaviour. You can check that here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com
HTH Davide 2008/9/16 Peter Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I experienced problems with emerge --sync because of a timestamp issue > and followed tha advice I found somewhere on the web to delete the > timestamp.chk file. Now emerge --sync runs fine but it wants to > downgrade a whole bunch of packages. What's wrong? > Peter > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjPte0ACgkQpGFGVEw9tBk45wCggSQist7ICyzuZ3FuHZTbWKBX > b1UAoMAUMqrVCUE9TJfZ9E8yMvn2O8LK > =1IJ5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
