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Bug 218854

Summary: argument atoms inappropriately match multiple slots
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) <plaes>
Component: Core - DependenciesAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor Keywords: InVCS
Priority: High    
Version: 2.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 155723, 216231    

Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2008-04-22 08:51:09 UTC
Currently portage 2.1.5_rc6 wants to rebuild xulrunner-1.8 which shouldn't be required:

"xulrunner" gets pulled in by the command line arg, portage resolves it as 1.9 (highest version), and then in the same depgraph, gets in liferea, then it decides whether to include liferea's deps in the depgraph, sees "xulrunner" there (instead of xulrunner-1.9) and pulls in 1.8 too.

chi ~ # emerge -av liferea xulrunner
[ebuild   R   ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14  USE="gnome ipv6 xinerama -debug -java -xprint" 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1 [1.9_beta5] USE="dbus gnome ipv6 -debug -java -startup-notification" 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] net-news/liferea-1.4.15 [1.4.14] USE="dbus gnutls libnotify networkmanager xulrunner* -debug -firefox* -gtkhtml -lua -seamonkey" 0 kB 

Now the debug output for the interested:

chi ~ # emerge --debug -av liferea xulrunner
myaction None
myopts {'--debug': True, '--ask': True, '--verbose': True}

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies      ebuild: net-news/liferea-1.4.15
   ebuild: net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1

Parent:    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1', 'merge')
Depstring: java? ( >=virtual/jdk-1.4 ) java? ( >=virtual/jre-1.4 ) >=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 >=dev-libs/nss-3.12_beta3 >=dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1_beta2 >=app-text/hunspell-1.1.9 >=media-libs/lcms-1.17 >=dev-db/sqlite-3.5 dev-util/pkgconfig x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 dev-util/pkgconfig x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=media-libs/jpeg-6b dev-libs/expat app-arch/zip app-arch/unzip >=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.58 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6 >=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2 >=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1 >=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0 gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.16.1 >=gnome-base/gconf-2.16.0 >=gnome-base/libgnome-2.16.0 ) dbus? ( >=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.72 ) startup-notification? ( >=x11-libs/startup-notification-0.8 ) !<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 >=x11-libs/cairo-1.5.12 java? ( >=dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7 ) =sys-devel/automake-1.10* =sys-devel/autoconf-2.1* sys-devel/libtool
Priority: hard
Candidates: ['>=gnome-base/libgnome-2.16.0', '>=dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1_beta2', 'x11-libs/libXrender', '=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*', 'dev-util/pkgconfig', '=sys-devel/automake-1.10*', 'x11-libs/libXmu', 'app-arch/unzip', '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6', '>=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3', '>=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.72', 'app-arch/zip', '>=media-libs/jpeg-6b', '>=dev-libs/nss-3.12_beta3', '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4', '>=media-libs/lcms-1.17', '>=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.16.1', '>=gnome-base/gconf-2.16.0', '>=x11-libs/cairo-1.5.12', '>=dev-db/sqlite-3.5', '>=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1', '>=app-text/hunspell-1.1.9', 'dev-libs/expat', 'x11-libs/libXt', '>=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2', '>=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1', '>=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0', 'sys-devel/libtool', '>=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.58', '!<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2']
installed: gnome-base/libgnome-2.22.0
installed: dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1_beta2
installed: x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4
installed: sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
installed: dev-util/pkgconfig-0.23
installed: sys-devel/automake-1.10.1
installed: x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.3
installed: app-arch/unzip-5.52-r2
installed: x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.9-r2
installed: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.22.0
installed: dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.74-r1
installed: app-arch/zip-2.32-r1
installed: media-libs/jpeg-6b-r8
installed: dev-libs/nss-3.12_rc2
installed: sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1
installed: media-libs/lcms-1.17
installed: gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.22.1
installed: gnome-base/gconf-2.22.0
installed: x11-libs/cairo-1.6.4
installed: dev-db/sqlite-3.5.6
installed: sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1
installed: app-text/hunspell-1.2.2_beta
installed: dev-libs/expat-2.0.1
installed: x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5
installed: dev-libs/glib-2.16.3
installed: x11-libs/pango-1.20.2
installed: dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.10
installed: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.26
installed: www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.59
Exiting... ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1', 'merge')

Parent:    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1', 'merge')
Depstring: java? ( >=virtual/jre-1.4 ) >=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 >=dev-libs/nss-3.12_beta3 >=dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1_beta2 >=app-text/hunspell-1.1.9 >=media-libs/lcms-1.17 >=dev-db/sqlite-3.5 x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=media-libs/jpeg-6b dev-libs/expat app-arch/zip app-arch/unzip >=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.58 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6 >=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2 >=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1 >=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0 gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.16.1 >=gnome-base/gconf-2.16.0 >=gnome-base/libgnome-2.16.0 ) dbus? ( >=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.72 ) startup-notification? ( >=x11-libs/startup-notification-0.8 ) !<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 >=x11-libs/cairo-1.5.12 java? ( >=dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7 )
Priority: medium
Candidates: ['>=gnome-base/libgnome-2.16.0', '>=dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1_beta2', 'x11-libs/libXrender', 'x11-libs/libXmu', 'app-arch/unzip', '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6', '>=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3', '>=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.72', 'app-arch/zip', '>=media-libs/jpeg-6b', '>=dev-libs/nss-3.12_beta3', '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4', '>=media-libs/lcms-1.17', '>=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.16.1', '>=gnome-base/gconf-2.16.0', '>=x11-libs/cairo-1.5.12', '>=dev-db/sqlite-3.5', '>=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1', '>=app-text/hunspell-1.1.9', 'dev-libs/expat', 'x11-libs/libXt', '>=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2', '>=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1', '>=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0', '>=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.58', '!<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2']
Exiting... ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1', 'merge')

Parent:    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-news/liferea-1.4.15', 'merge')
Depstring: libnotify? ( >=x11-libs/libnotify-0.3.2 ) lua? ( >=dev-lang/lua-5.1 ) xulrunner? ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8* ) !xulrunner? ( firefox? ( =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2* ) ) !xulrunner? ( !firefox? ( seamonkey? ( =www-client/seamonkey-1* ) ) ) !amd64? ( !xulrunner? ( !firefox? ( !seamonkey? ( gtkhtml? ( gnome-extra/gtkhtml:2 ) ) ) ) ) >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8 x11-libs/pango >=gnome-base/gconf-2 >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27 >=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.19 >=dev-db/sqlite-3.3 >=dev-libs/glib-2 >=gnome-base/libglade-2 dbus? ( >=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.71 ) networkmanager? ( net-misc/networkmanager ) gnutls? ( net-libs/gnutls ) dev-util/pkgconfig >=dev-util/intltool-0.35 >=sys-apps/sed-4
Priority: hard
Candidates: ['>=gnome-base/libglade-2', 'x11-libs/pango', '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8', '>=dev-db/sqlite-3.3', '>=sys-apps/sed-4', '>=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.71', '>=dev-libs/glib-2', 'net-misc/networkmanager', '=net-libs/xulrunner-1.8*', 'dev-util/pkgconfig', 'net-libs/gnutls', '>=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.19', '>=dev-util/intltool-0.35', '>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27', '>=gnome-base/gconf-2', '>=x11-libs/libnotify-0.3.2']
installed: gnome-base/libglade-2.6.2
installed: x11-libs/pango-1.20.2
installed: x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.9-r2
installed: dev-db/sqlite-3.5.6
installed: sys-apps/sed-4.1.5-r1
installed: dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.74-r1
installed: dev-libs/glib-2.16.3
installed: net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.6
   ebuild: net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14
installed: net-libs/gnutls-2.2.2
installed: dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.23
installed: dev-util/intltool-0.37.1
installed: dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.31
installed: gnome-base/gconf-2.22.0
installed: x11-libs/libnotify-0.4.4
Exiting... ('ebuild', '/', 'net-news/liferea-1.4.15', 'merge')

Parent:    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-news/liferea-1.4.15', 'merge')
Depstring: libnotify? ( >=x11-libs/libnotify-0.3.2 ) lua? ( >=dev-lang/lua-5.1 ) xulrunner? ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8* ) !xulrunner? ( firefox? ( =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2* ) ) !xulrunner? ( !firefox? ( seamonkey? ( =www-client/seamonkey-1* ) ) ) !amd64? ( !xulrunner? ( !firefox? ( !seamonkey? ( gtkhtml? ( gnome-extra/gtkhtml:2 ) ) ) ) ) >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8 x11-libs/pango >=gnome-base/gconf-2 >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27 >=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.19 >=dev-db/sqlite-3.3 >=dev-libs/glib-2 >=gnome-base/libglade-2 dbus? ( >=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.71 ) networkmanager? ( net-misc/networkmanager ) gnutls? ( net-libs/gnutls )
Priority: medium
Candidates: ['>=gnome-base/libglade-2', 'x11-libs/pango', '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8', '>=dev-db/sqlite-3.3', '>=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.71', '>=dev-libs/glib-2', 'net-misc/networkmanager', '=net-libs/xulrunner-1.8*', 'net-libs/gnutls', '>=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.19', '>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27', '>=gnome-base/gconf-2', '>=x11-libs/libnotify-0.3.2']
Exiting... ('ebuild', '/', 'net-news/liferea-1.4.15', 'merge')

Parent:    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14', 'merge')
Depstring: java? ( >=virtual/jdk-1.4 ) >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 >=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 >=dev-libs/nss-3.11.5 >=dev-libs/nspr-4.6.5-r1 java? ( >=virtual/jre-1.4 ) dev-util/pkgconfig =sys-devel/automake-1.10* =sys-devel/autoconf-2.1* sys-devel/libtool x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 dev-util/pkgconfig x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=media-libs/jpeg-6b >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1 dev-libs/expat app-arch/zip app-arch/unzip >=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.42 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6 >=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2 >=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1 >=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0 gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.3.5 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.2.0 ) !<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 >=x11-libs/cairo-1.0.0 xinerama? ( x11-proto/xineramaproto ) xprint? ( x11-proto/printproto ) java? ( >=dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7 )
Priority: hard
Candidates: ['x11-libs/libXrender', '=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*', 'dev-util/pkgconfig', 'sys-devel/libtool', 'x11-proto/xineramaproto', 'x11-libs/libXmu', 'app-arch/unzip', '>=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.2.0', '>=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.42', 'app-arch/zip', '>=media-libs/jpeg-6b', '>=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1', '>=x11-libs/cairo-1.0.0', '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4', '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6', '>=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1', 'dev-libs/expat', 'x11-libs/libXt', '>=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2', '>=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1', '>=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0', '=sys-devel/automake-1.10*', '>=dev-libs/nspr-4.6.5-r1', '!<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2', '>=dev-libs/nss-3.11.5', '>=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.3.5']
installed: x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.2
installed: gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.22.1
installed: www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.59
installed: media-libs/libpng-1.2.26-r1
installed: x11-libs/cairo-1.6.4
installed: dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1_beta2
installed: dev-libs/nss-3.12_rc2
installed: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.22.0
Exiting... ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14', 'merge')

Parent:    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14', 'merge')
Depstring: >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 >=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 >=dev-libs/nss-3.11.5 >=dev-libs/nspr-4.6.5-r1 java? ( >=virtual/jre-1.4 ) x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXmu >=media-libs/jpeg-6b >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1 dev-libs/expat app-arch/zip app-arch/unzip >=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.42 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6 >=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2 >=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1 >=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0 gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.3.5 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.2.0 ) !<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 >=x11-libs/cairo-1.0.0 java? ( >=dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7 )
Priority: medium
Candidates: ['x11-libs/libXt', '>=www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.42', 'app-arch/unzip', '>=x11-libs/pango-1.10.1', 'x11-libs/libXrender', '!<x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2', '>=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.3.5', '>=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1', 'app-arch/zip', '>=dev-libs/nspr-4.6.5-r1', '>=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1', '>=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2', '>=dev-libs/nss-3.11.5', '>=media-libs/jpeg-6b', '>=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.2.0', '>=x11-libs/cairo-1.0.0', 'x11-libs/libXmu', '>=dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.0', '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4', '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6', 'dev-libs/expat']
Exiting... ('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14', 'merge')
... done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.14  USE="gnome ipv6 xinerama -debug -java -xprint" 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5-r1 [1.9_beta5] USE="dbus gnome ipv6 -debug -java -startup-notification" 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] net-news/liferea-1.4.15 [1.4.14] USE="dbus gnutls libnotify networkmanager xulrunner* -debug -firefox* -gtkhtml -lua -seamonkey" 0 kB
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-04-22 16:45:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Currently portage 2.1.5_rc6 wants to rebuild xulrunner-1.8 which shouldn't be
> required:
> 
> "xulrunner" gets pulled in by the command line arg, portage resolves it as 1.9
> (highest version), and then in the same depgraph, gets in liferea, then it
> decides whether to include liferea's deps in the depgraph, sees "xulrunner"
> there (instead of xulrunner-1.9) and pulls in 1.8 too.

The code that matches arguments with packages doesn't work correctly when multiple slots are involved. Until this is fixed, you can use a more specific atom like =xulrunner-1.9 as a workaround.
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-05-06 08:37:14 UTC
This is fixed in 2.1.5_rc7.