Bugzilla Bug 249100

Hi,

If I disable my overlay, portage use offical ebuild of doom3-data :

---
$ emerge -pve world | egrep "(doom3|interactive)"
[ebuild I R   ] games-fps/doom3-1.3.1302-r2  USE="alsa cdinstall opengl
-dedicated -roe" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild I R   ] games-fps/doom3-data-1.1.1282-r1  USE="(-localization%*)" 0 kB
[?=>0]
Total: 775 packages (775 reinstalls, 2 interactive), Size of downloads: 449,141
kB



Now, if I enable my overlay, portage use my own doom3-data ebuild (based on the
offical one), but portage does not recognize it as interactive :

---
$ emerge -pve world | egrep "(doom3|interactive)"
[ebuild I R   ] games-fps/doom3-1.3.1302-r2  USE="alsa cdinstall opengl
-dedicated -roe" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] games-fps/doom3-data-1.1.1282-r1  USE="localization" 0 kB
[?=>1]
Total: 777 packages (777 reinstalls, 1 interactive), Size of downloads: 449,141
kB


Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6_rc2 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname:
Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:46:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/data/distpack/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox
sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/data/distpack/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="/var/gentrees/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/gentrees/overlay-perso"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2
cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss
encode evo exif fam ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal
iconv imlib isdnlog java jpeg libnotify logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg
mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam
pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline
reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs
tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner
xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106
cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0
intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug
rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic
authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache
filter headers 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="evdev" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Assuming that PROPERTIES=interactive is set in the ebuild, the problem is may
be due to stale cache in /var/cache/edb/dep/. Have you use /etc/portage/modules
to override the default portdbapi.auxdbmodule setting? Does it help if you use
`touch doom3-data-1.1.1282-r1.ebuild` to bump the timestamp on the ebuild?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Have you use /etc/portage/modules to override the default portdbapi.auxdbmodule setting?

No.


> Does it help if you use `touch doom3-data-1.1.1282-r1.ebuild` to bump the timestamp on the ebuild?

Yes, it solve the problem, thanks.

I guess the stale cache entry was generated by an older version of portage.
There's currently no way for portage to know that, but we could start putting a
version stamp inside the cache entries for this purpose. Then we'd have to bump
the version any time that a new key such as PROPERTIES is added.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I guess the stale cache entry was generated by an older version of portage.
Yes, last time I modified and emerged this ebuild, it was with portage 2.1.4.5.

> but we could start putting a version stamp inside the cache entries
> for this purpose. Then we'd have to bump the version any time that a new key
> such as PROPERTIES is added.

Why not just delete the overlays's cache when necessary on a portage update ?
(delete everything in /var/cache/edb/dep, except /var/cache/edb/dep/${PORTDIR},
to make sure that cache entries from disabled overlays are clean)

(In reply to comment #4)
> Why not just delete the overlays's cache when necessary on a portage update ?
> (delete everything in /var/cache/edb/dep, except /var/cache/edb/dep/${PORTDIR},
> to make sure that cache entries from disabled overlays are clean)

That's sort of invasive, so things like that are normally done at the user's
discretion, such as by displaying an ewarn message instructing them what to do.

An alternative to a rea; version stamp would be to use a marker to indicate
that a given key such as PROPERTIES is supported be the version of portage that
generated the cache entry. For example, instead of omitting PROPERTIES from the
cache entry when PROPERTIES happens to be empty, PROPERTIES=( ) could be used
to indicate that PROPERTIES is supported but happens to be empty.