Today I upgraded to sys-apps/portage-2.1.5_rc7 and found a strange behavior about unneeded downgrades. Preamble: the latest stable version of the package that I'm using to explain the bug, app-office/dia, is 0.96.1-r1 on my arch (x86). If I run 'emerge -p app-office/dia' the output is: [ebuild R ] app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1 USE="cairo gnome gnome-print png python zlib -debug -doc" 4,342 kB while 'emerge -up app-office/dia' reports [ebuild UD] app-office/dia-0.95.1 [0.96.1-r1] USE="gnome png python zlib -debug (-cairo%*) (-doc%) (-gnome-print%*)" 4,105 kB Adding -u to the commandline options causes emerge to suggest a downgrade, while there's no need for it. I temporarily downgraded portage to 2.1.5_rc6 and the problem disappeared. With the old version of portage, 'emerge -p app-office/dia' prints (correctly) [ebuild R ] app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1 USE="cairo gnome gnome-print png python zlib -debug -doc" 4,342 kB while 'emerge -pu app-office/dia' shows no package to upgrade/downgrade/recompile. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.5_rc7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:45:03 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--tree" FEATURES="candy distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amr apache2 avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus djvu dri dvd dvdr dvdread dvi emacs encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gnome-print gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hddtemp iconv ipv6 java javascript jce jikes jpeg libnotify libsamplerate logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg msn mudflap mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam pch pcre pdf perl php png ppds python quicktime readline real samba sdl session slang sockets socks5 spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg symlink syslog tcpd theora threads tiff tokenizer truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORT
The most likely explanation is that the lower version is being pulled in as a dependency of some other package. Please post --debug output for one of the commands that results in a downgrade. emerge -up app-office/dia --debug > debug.log 2>&1
(In reply to comment #1) > The most likely explanation is that the lower version is being pulled in as a > dependency of some other package. Please post --debug output for one of the > commands that results in a downgrade. > > emerge -up app-office/dia --debug > debug.log 2>&1 > I'm not the original reporter, but I have a _very_ simple example, from the commandline: emerge -uvp --debug mailbase myaction None myopts {'--pretend': True, '--debug': True, '--update': True, '--verbose': True} These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ebuild: net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 ebuild: net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 ^H^H... done! [ebuild UD] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 [1] USE="(-pam%*)" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB It appears to not even consider the currently installed (i.e. latest) version! I hope this helps.
I don't think that app-office/dia is a dependency of some other package, as it is a mere office application (and it is listed in my world file). I will attach debug.log.
Created attachment 152217 [details] Output of 'emerge -up app-office/dia --debug'
I seems as if the code path from the patch for bug #219369 is being triggered. What KEYWORDS do the installed versions have? cat /var/db/pkg/app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1/KEYWORDS cat /var/db/pkg/net-mail/mailbase-1/KEYWORDS
dark@darkplace ~ $ cat /var/db/pkg/app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1/KEYWORDS ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd Yes, when I installed app-office/dia, it was unstable.
Hi, I just get the same problem with mailbase-1 Strangelly, I have no /var/db/pkg/net-mail/mailbase-1/KEYWORDS file. Such files should have been pulled by a portage version unpgraded after I installed this package ? If I reinstall manually this package (emerge -av1 =mailbase-1), I have now the missing KEYWORDS file and the problem vanishes
I have the same problem in prefix (so far on Linux only), emerge -Dua world gives a huge list with all packages being suggested to be downgraded. I believe this behaviour started for me when I installed a portage based on revision 9962, coming from revision 9894.
(In reply to comment #7) > Strangelly, I have no /var/db/pkg/net-mail/mailbase-1/KEYWORDS file. > Such files should have been pulled by a portage version unpgraded after I > installed this package ? IIRC <portage-2.1 did not record KEYWORDS in /var/db/pkg, so that could be the root problem here (on my server system only 184 of 334 installed packages have a KEYWORDS entry in vdb).
Created attachment 152495 [details, diff] prevent unneeded downgrades If this patch is saved as /tmp/downgrade.patch, then it can be applied as follows: patch /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge /tmp/downgrade.patch
The patch provided above solves my problem and, at the moment, has no visible side effects. Thanks.
confirmed to work in r10249
This is fixed in 2.1.5_rc8.
