Bug 23546

Summary:	Blocking depends are ignored by emerge -u
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Robert Coie (RETIRED) <rac>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	lisa, ska-fan
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Coie (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-26 13:29:53 UTC

Blocking DEPENDs that start with '!' are ignored when running emerge -u.  If the
-u is dropped, the depends take effect.  This appears to be due to the fact that
the test on line 577 of emerge fails: 

if myparent and self.mydbapi[myroot].match(mykey):

I see that emerge -u uses a fakedbapi, as opposed to a vardbapi, which I think
accounts for the disparity.  One possibility for a fix would be to change that
line to:

if myparent and vardbapi.match(mykey):

...but I don't know if that is a good idea or would have other side-effects.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-27 16:49:23 UTC

It's odd that it doesn't work...
Changing it to vardbapi will break alternate roots, aka LiveCD/Stager scripts.

Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-16 01:27:54 UTC

Actually... Rac was partially right, and so was I. :)

if myparent and
   (self.mydbapi[myroot].match(mykey) or vardbapi.match(mykey)):

Fixed in cvs for >=49_pre8

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-17 09:29:29 UTC

*** Bug 24652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***