Bugzilla Bug 254221

I updated my portage tree to "Timestamp of tree: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:45:02
+0000," I ran an emerge -vD world, and as soon as it finished compiling
portage, it naturally stopped and resumed! Ever since it resumed, all the
packages after that with all the dependencies don't disappear out of world!
They are in "R" state, and if you cancel emerge at any point and run, emerge
-vD world again or even emerge -v world, all packages are in "R" state but
don't disappear, they keep on getting reinstalled over and over again!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get to a latest stable tree that requires package upgrades, emerge -v1
portage and make sure it's 2.1.6.4
2. Once finished, run emerge -vD world, upgrade a few packages
3. Then cancel emerge, and rerun emerge -vD world, and the packages that were
emerged and successfully installed, reappear in the world list but as state
Repair "R"

Actual Results:  
I get the same results! I emerge an older version of portage like version
2.1.4.5, and the I get the desired results, nothing in world to emerge! I
re-emerge the new version 2.1.6.4, and I run emerge -pvD world, and I get 128
packages to repair, nothing to upgrade and nothing new...

Total: 126 packages (126 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
 [0] /usr/portage
 [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment

Even if I take my overlay off, I get the same results!


Expected Results:  
If I run on portage 2.1.4.5, i get

emerge -pvD world

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

Calculating world dependencies... done!

[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4 [2.1.4.5] USE="-build -doc -epydoc
(-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB 
*** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
    then resume the merge.
[ebuild     UD] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3 [1.41.3-r1] USE="nls" 0 kB 

Total: 2 packages (1 upgrade, 1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB

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Which is correct!

I updated from a portage tree dated 1st November 2008

---

Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.28-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.28-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:45:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
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, 1.10.2
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"
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/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/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="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib
crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox
fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg ldap
libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl
openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs
tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv
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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vga vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG,
LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

R is "reinstall", not repair.

This is a dupe on bug #252985

Basically the default action for the world and system sets has changed. You
should use the -u (--update) option to check for updates.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252985 ***

Thank You Allen...

Much appreciated!

I did not realise the sets have changed!

:)(:

(In reply to comment #1)
> R is "reinstall", not repair.
> 
> This is a dupe on bug #252985
> 
> Basically the default action for the world and system sets has changed. You
> should use the -u (--update) option to check for updates.
> 

Reopening for marking as duplicate again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252985 ***