I have a portage overlay. I created packages like bob/bob-mythtv and bob/bob-core. "emerge bob-core" fails, but "emerge bob/bob-core" succeeds. Subsequently the package is both installed and not-installed. epm -q can see the package, equery list can not. The dependencies are considered in an emerge world, but the RDEPEND="!" blocking is not. It should refuse to install and instruct the operator how to add a category. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: cat > $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/bob/bob-mythtv-1.0.ebuild <<EOF DESCRIPTION="specifies the bob-approved version of mythtv" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="x86" DEPEND="<media-tv/mythtv-0.20" RDEPEND="!>=media-tv/mythtv-0.20" EOF emerge bob/bob-mythtv emerge -pv mythtv Actual Results: nile bob-mythtv # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p12172 [0.19_p10505] USE="alsa dts%* dvd fr ontendonly mmx opengl perl%* vorbis (-altivec) -backendonly -crciprec% -dbox2 -d ebug -dvb -freebox% -hdhomerun% -ieee1394 -ivtv% -jack -joystick -lcd -lirc -xvm c" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -i810 -via" 12,109 kB [ebuild U ] x11-themes/mythtv-themes-0.20 [0.19] 13,852 kB Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades), Size of downloads: 25,961 kB Expected Results: the emerge bob/bob-mythtv should fail with an error like "invalid category bob. check your $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/profiles/categories". Once bob is in the categories, the emerge correctly reports blockers: nile bob-mythtv # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] >=media-tv/mythtv-0.20 (is blocking bob/bob-mythtv-1.0) [ebuild U ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p12172 [0.19_p10505] USE="alsa dts%* dvd fr ontendonly mmx opengl perl%* vorbis (-altivec) -backendonly -crciprec% -dbox2 -d ebug -dvb -freebox% -hdhomerun% -ieee1394 -ivtv% -jack -joystick -lcd -lirc -xvm c" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -i810 -via" 12,109 kB [ebuild U ] x11-themes/mythtv-themes-0.20 [0.19] 13,852 kB Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades, 1 block), Size of downloads: 25,961 kB
Nuts. That should be cat > $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/bob/bob-mythtv/bob-mythtv-1.0.ebuild <<EOF
In svn r5988:5990 it's fixed to warn about packages (ebuild or binaries) with invalid categories and it will not allow them to be installed.
This has been released in 2.1.2-r10.
