Bug 131764 – emerge --usepkg doesn't get all packages

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Thomas Schuetz 2006-04-30 00:48:52 UTC]

I'm owning 2 computers with the same installations so I compile once on one PC and "emerge --usepkg -auvDN world" on the other. For some weeks/months (?) I have problems with this procedure. The command doesn't get all needed packages and my system breaks. If I do a "emerge -auvDN world" without "--usepkg" it finds more packages which need to be updated. I just build up my 2 systems completely new and had problems again on the second machine, so I did a "emerge -e --usepkg world" and a "emerge --usepkg -auvDN world". After that, "emerge -auvDN world" still finds 20 packages which are missing!

[Comment 1 Sunny Sachanandani 2006-05-05 07:10:34 UTC]

Yes I can confirm this too : although on older versions of portage this does not seem to happen.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2006-05-05 10:09:48 UTC]

Please post the output of `emerge --info`.

[Comment 3 Thomas Schuetz 2006-05-05 12:45:09 UTC]

Here is the output of emerge --info. And yes, I hadn't this problem before maybe 2006, the older portage seems to work fine like Sunny Sachanandani reported.

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1400+
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/thommy/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gtk gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nowin nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl php pic png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline recode reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb video_cards_ati video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv yahoo zlib video_cards_mach64 linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2006-05-05 14:25:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Here is the output of emerge --info.

Thanks.  Would you like to try the latest ~arch version of portage to see whether the problem exists there too?

[Comment 5 Sunny Sachanandani 2006-05-06 02:26:15 UTC]

I found out what the problem is : The new portage doesn't pull in build time dependencies while using emerge --usepkg , it only pulls in runtime dependencies (Well one would not need build time dependencies while installing binary packages). Anyway I have made a feature request for another option in emerge so that it pulls build time dependencies also if available as binary packages, I need this because I use binary packages for backups and so I like to replicate my exact system if it breaks down. See bug 132355 for this feature request and please post comments on it (and get more people you know to comment on it and then we can have this behavior again in portage [as in previous versions]).

[Comment 6 Thomas Schuetz 2006-05-06 02:59:32 UTC]

Ah, yes, that my be the problem! I installed the newest portage and will test this, too. I need to wait for some more updated ebuilds to test, but IIRC today is bug-day, maybe I can test this all tomorrow...

[Comment 7 Thomas Schuetz 2006-05-09 12:46:45 UTC]

Sunny seems to be right, portage just gets the RDEPENDs, not the DEPENDs with "emerge --usepkg -uD world". So this bug can be closed, it's not a bug, it's a feature :-)
I would prefer if it would be possible to deactivate this.

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2006-05-09 17:03:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I would prefer if it would be possible to deactivate this.

And that's bug 132355...