Bug 141643

Summary:	emerge should be more explicit when all ebuilds for installed package are masked/removed
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) <caster>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	radek
Priority:	Lowest	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	136244, 142283
Attachments:	patch for emerge for more explicit output

Description Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-24 15:56:24 UTC

Currently (portage-2.1.1_pre3-r4) emerge will die if all ebuilds for a needed dep are masked/removed, regardless if the dep is already installed. But for world packages that are not a dep of something else, either:

a) package gets masked, you try install it, you get error, emerge dies, fine.
b) you install a package, then it gets masked...

In case b) emerge should give a warning (and/or even die) when you try to update world. IMHO it shouldn't make differences between (trying) installing package before and after masking. Currently it just gives a warning (list of such packages) that's easy to overlook (from my own experience :) and only with --verbose option... I think such info is too important to be printed only with verbose option.

Comment 1 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-24 15:58:30 UTC

Created attachment 92658 [details, diff]
patch for emerge for more explicit output

This is my patch attempt to handle this - the list of missing/masked packages is printed even without --verbose and the !!!'s are red for better noticing. Changed the text a bit too, I think it's more correct now, but maybe I'm wrong on this one.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-07-24 22:42:48 UTC

Thanks, your patch is in svn r4022.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-07-25 12:28:37 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.1_pre3-r5.