With gentoolkit v0.2.2-rc1 installed I recently did a "revdep-rebuild -X" that found 3 packages that needed to be rebuilt. Unfortunately the command line that was generated included the version numbers (ie, "emerge --oneshot =pmount-0.9.9"). In this case it didn't matter, but I figured this should work. I used --packagenames recently to allow pmount to upgrade (when sysfsutils was 2.0) so I know the functionality is still there. And I marked the bug as only AMD64 as I don't know if it happens anywhere else. Also I can't try to repro it as I have already updated those 3 packages...no idea how to trick revdep into creating a command line.
Not a bug, this is the correct behaviour, and has always been as far as I can recall. '-X' implies installing the best available version of that package, but it will still emerge by version number regardless of whether '-X' is used or not. Example: I have games-emulation/xmame-0.102 built with +arts, but has since broken when kde-base/arts was unmerged. # revdep-rebuild -p -v All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot -p -v =games-emulation/xmame-0.102 # revdep-rebuild -X -p -v All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot -p -v =games-emulation/xmame-0.105 To further illustrate, your command line "emerge --oneshot =pmount-0.9.9" as returned by "revdep-rebuild -X" is correct. revdep-rebuild has chosen to install the latest/best version of pmount, in this case 0.9.9 (as unmasked by you).
Then why are they listed as synonyms if they aren't? "# revdep-rebuild --help Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS] Broken reverse dependency rebuilder. -X, --package-names Emerge based on package names, not exact versions ..."
(In reply to comment #2) > Then why are they listed as synonyms if they aren't? Eh? What's listed as synonyms?
The text I had included above was from the tool's own --help. It lists both options on the same line with a single description of "Emerge based on package names, not exact versions".
The behavior that you are seeing is correct. revdep-rebuild by default tries to re-emerge the exact version that is installed. When you use -X or --package-names, it internally uses portage to determine the best version available based upon the package name. Once it determines the best version, it explicity uses that version for the emerge command.
*** Bug 168218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
