Note: I am aware of the "new" functionality of the --newuse option. However in my case it causes an endless loop in which a fixed set of packages are selected for remerging. In the scenario the following conditions apply: * there are no new USE flags * there are no changed USE flags * portage tree is up-to-date * no ebuilds have changed between the first and last emerge run * no overlays affect these packages Any ideas what might cause the behaviour below? # emerge -DNuvp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/IO-String-1.08 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Archive-Tar-1.29 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.10 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.54 USE="unicode -minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/URI-1.35 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.805 USE="ssl -minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Net-IP-1.25 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.11 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.58 USE="-ipv6 -minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Unicode-Map8-0.12 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/yaml-0.62 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/module-build-0.28.01 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.18 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.15 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Unicode-Map-0.112 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Jcode-2.06 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-MD4-1.5 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Crypt-SmbHash-0.12 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Text-Iconv-1.4 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/XML-Filter-BufferText-1.01 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Convert-ASN1-0.20 USE="-minimal" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB # emerge -DNu world <__LISTED PACKAGES ARE REMERGED__> # emerge -DNuvp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/IO-String-1.08 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Archive-Tar-1.29 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.10 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.54 USE="unicode -minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/URI-1.35 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.805 USE="ssl -minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Net-IP-1.25 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.11 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.58 USE="-ipv6 -minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Unicode-Map8-0.12 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/yaml-0.62 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/module-build-0.28.01 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.18 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.15 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Unicode-Map-0.112 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Jcode-2.06 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-MD4-1.5 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Crypt-SmbHash-0.12 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Text-Iconv-1.4 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/XML-Filter-BufferText-1.01 USE="-minimal" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Convert-ASN1-0.20 USE="-minimal" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1_pre3-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cjk crypt cups dba foomaticdb gd gdbm gif imap jpeg mime ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl pic png ppds python readline samba session slang ssl tcpd tiff truetype unicode utf8 vhosts x86 xml xml2 xsl zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The emerge output is missing the "perl" flag. Do you have it masked in /etc/portage/profile/use.mask or something?
Please attach a debug.log created as follows: FEATURES=python-trace emerge -pvd =dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 | grep aux_get > debug.log 2>&1
Created attachment 92901 [details] debug.log I'm assuming you ment the following, if not please say so. FEATURES=python-trace emerge -pvd =dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 2>&1 | grep aux_get > debug.log
The following line indeicates that your cache returned an incorrect value for IUSE: portage.py line=4731 name=aux_get event=return value=['minimal'] locals={'mycpv': 'dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04', 'mylist': ['IUSE'], 'mydata': 'omitted', 'self': <portage.portdbapi instance at 0xb7a7c4ac>, 'returnme': ['minimal'], 'mytree': None, 'cat': 'dev-perl', 'myebuild': '/usr/portage/dev-perl/IO-Zlib/IO-Zlib-1.04.ebuild', 'emtime': 1152012945, 'pkg': 'IO-Zlib-1.04', 'mylocation': '/usr/portage', 'x': 'IUSE', 'myManifestPath': '/usr/portage/dev-perl/IO-Zlib/Manifest', 'doregen': False} It's only showing "minimal", but it should show "perl minimal". Are you using a custom cache modules in /etc/portage/modules? Do you have the latest version of $PORTDIR/eclass/perl-module.eclass? Do you have eclasses in your overlay?
No, Yes and No. Also tried to run `emerge --regen` but that didn't help either. basil ~ # ls /etc/portage/overlay/ app-emulation dev-python mail-client media-sound net-wireless sys-boot dev-db dev-util media-gfx media-video net-www x11-themes dev-php5 kde-base media-libs net-p2p sys-apps basil ~ # cat /etc/portage/modules cat: /etc/portage/modules: No such file or directory basil ~ # head -n 3 /usr/portage/eclass/perl-module.eclass # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/perl-module.eclass,v 1.99 2006/07/08 16:46:19 mcummings Exp $
(In reply to comment #5) > Also tried to run `emerge --regen` but that didn't help either. Please run `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage && emerge --metadata` and then try `emerge --newuse world` again. After that, please post the output of the following commands: cat /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 portageq metadata / ebuild dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 IUSE portageq metadata / installed dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 IUSE USE
That fixed it, but I have no idea how it came to exist in the first place. basil ~ # rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage && emerge --metadata >>> Updating Portage cache: 100% basil ~ # emerge -DNuvp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB basil ~ # cat /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 dev-perl/Compress-Zlib perl? ( dev-lang/perl ) dev-perl/Compress-Zlib !minimal? ( perl? ( dev-lang/perl ) ) 0 mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TO/TOMHUGHES/IO-Zlib-1.04.tar.gz http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/T/TO/TOMHUGHES/IO-Zlib-1.04.readme || ( Artistic GPL-2 ) IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd perl-module perl minimal 0 basil ~ # portageq metadata / ebuild dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 IUSE perl minimal basil ~ # portageq metadata / installed dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04 IUSE USE perl minimal acl apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cjk crypt cups dba foomaticdb gd gdbm gif imap jpeg mime ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl pic png ppds python readline samba session slang ssl tcpd tiff truetype unicode utf8 vhosts x86 xml xml2 xsl zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU
(In reply to comment #7) > That fixed it, but I have no idea how it came to exist in the first place. A bug in the eclass timestamp validation that's done during cache transfer could explain that. I'll take a close look at it...
The code seems correct and I haven't been able to reproduce the problem. Please reopen if this happens again.
