eix -cu report updatable ebuild which can't do. This false update is when application depends on a slot. An example : $ equery d lucene [ Searching for packages depending on lucene... ] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r3 (dev-java/lucene:1) so lucene:1 depends of eclipse. eix -cu [U] dev-java/lucene (1.4.3-r3(1)@13.04.2008 -> 1.4.3-r3 2.1.0 2.1.0-r1): High-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java and eix -cu propose to update to lucene:2.1 eix man page says: Only match packages which have at least one slotted version installed which is not the best version within that slot. This means that you should either upgrade or downgrade that package. So i think they is a bug. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use eclipse 2.eix -cu 3. Actual Results: $ eix -cu [U] dev-java/lucene (1.4.3-r3(1)@13.04.2008 -> 1.4.3-r3 2.1.0 2.1.0-r1): High-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java [U] dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api (4.1.36(2.3)@04.05.2008 -> 3 4.1.36 5.5.26 6.0.18): Tomcat's Servlet API 2.5/JSP API 2.1 implementation [U] java-virtuals/servlet-api (2.3(2.3)@02.05.2008 -> 2.2 2.3 2.5): Virtual for servlet api Found 3 matches. Expected Results: nothing $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r6 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, 1.10.1 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" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant" 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" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLORFGBG="15;default;0" COLORTERM="rxvt-xpm" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse" DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-G9DyatDEbg,guid=6c0db707783a87c585062d3f48b08822" DESKTOP_SESSION="kde-3.5" DISPLAY=":0.0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" DM_CONTROL="/var/run/xdmctl" EDITOR="vim" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --no-passive-ftp ${URI} -P ${DISTDIR}" GCC_SPECS="" GDK_USE_XFT="1" GENERATION="2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" GS_LIB="/home/seblu/.fonts" GTK2_RC_FILES="/home/seblu/.gtkrc-2.0-kde:/home/seblu/.kde3.5/share/config/gtkrc-2.0" GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/seblu/.gtkrc:/home/seblu/.kde3.5/share/config/gtkrc" HOME="/home/seblu" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/info:/usr/share/info/emacs-22" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" JAVAC="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac" JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" JDK_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" KDEDIR="/usr/kde/3.5" KDEDIRS="/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/3.5" KDE_FULL_SESSION="true" KDE_IS_PRELINKED="1" KDE_MULTIHEAD="false" KDE_SESSION_UID="18136" KERNEL="linux" LANG="en_US.utf8" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.utf8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.utf8" LDPATH="/usr/kde/3.5/lib:" LESS="-R -M --shift 5" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LOGNAME="seblu" LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.svgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:" MAKEOPTS="-j8" MANPATH="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/man:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.18/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/opera/share/man" NAME="Seblu" OLDPWD="/home/seblu/perso" OPENGL_PROFILE="nvidia" PAGER="most" PATH="/home/seblu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.18/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.18/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.18/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/qt/3/lib/pkgconfig" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc s390 amd64 x86 ppc64 x86-fbsd m68k arm sparc sh mips ia64 alpha hppa sparc-fbsd" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/bin" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_IUSE="^(alpha|alsa_cards_aoa|alsa_cards_aoa-fabric-layout|alsa_cards_aoa-onyx|alsa_cards_aoa-soundbus|alsa_cards_aoa-soundbus-i2s|alsa_cards_aoa-tas|alsa_cards_aoa-toonie|alsa_cards_armaaci|alsa_cards_at91-soc|alsa_cards_at91-soc-eti-b1-wm8731|alsa_cards_au1x00|alsa_cards_harmony|alsa_cards_powermac|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-i2sound|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-corgi|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-poodle|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-spitz|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-tosa|alsa_cards_sa11xx-uda1341ts|alsa_cards_sun-amd7930|alsa_cards_sun-cs4231|alsa_cards_sun-dbri|altivec|amd64|aqua|arm|bmp|bmpx|bootstrap|build|coreaudio|crosscompile_opts_.*|elibc_.*|elibc_Darwin|elibc_DragonFly|elibc_FreeBSD|elibc_NetBSD|elibc_OpenBSD|elibc_glibc|elibc_uclibc|emul-linux-x86|hppa|ia64|ibm|infopipe|kernel_.*|kernel_Darwin|kernel_FreeBSD|kernel_linux|m68k|mips|mplayer-bin|multilib|n32|n64|pam_console|pbbuttonsd|ppc|ppc64|ppcsha1|s390|selinux|sh|sparc|sparc-fbsd|uclibc|ultra1|userland_.*|userland_BSD|userland_Darwin|userland_GNU|video_cards_impact|video_cards_newport|video_cards_sunbw2|video_cards_suncg14|video_cards_suncg3|video_cards_suncg6|video_cards_sunffb|video_cards_sunleo|video_cards_suntcx|vis|x86|x86-fbsd|xmms)$" PORTAGE_NICENESS="6" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm" PORTAGE_USE="elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" " PRELINK_PATH_MASK="/lib/modules:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/lib/wine:/usr/lib/valgrind:*.la:*.png:*.py:*.pl:*.pm:*.sh:*.xml:*.xslt:*.a:*.js:/usr/lib/klibc" PWD="/home/seblu" PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" QMAKESPEC="linux-g++" QTDIR="/usr/qt/3" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --no-passive-ftp ${URI} -P ${DISTDIR}" ROOT="/" 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cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" USER="seblu" USERLAND="GNU" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" VMHANDLE="sun-jdk-1.4" WINDOWID="67108877" XCURSOR_THEME="ComixCursors-Black-Small" XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/usr/kde/3.5/etc/xdg" XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share" XDM_MANAGED="/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic" _="/usr/bin/emerge"
The problem is the manual page. It should mention that -u is affected by UPGRADE_TO_HIGHEST_SLOT, which defaults to true.
manpage is fixed in new svn trunk (>=eix-0.13.5)
(In reply to comment #1) > The problem is the manual page. It should mention that -u is affected by > UPGRADE_TO_HIGHEST_SLOT, which defaults to true. > after some time with this variable set, i think it's not a good solution. For example, if i want the last version of totod, i run emerge -va totod. After in world file totod is present without slot information. If a new slot is released, eix don't see it (of course). So i think it's not a fix of the precedent bug or can you saus me why i can the same behaviour with eix -cu and emerge -NDua world.
eix does not (nor will it ever) do any dependency checking whatsoever. It does not care about the fact that lucene may be installed as a dependency of eclipse-sdk and that eclipse-sdk only pulls in lucene:1. eix only sees that lucene-someversion:1 and eclipse-sdk-someversion:0 are installed. If there is a higher version of one of the packages available, that packages will be shown with [U] (upgrade available). The variable we talked about, does change that "update available"-behaviour so that only upgrades inside a slot will be displayed. As you see, we really can't "fix" this problem.
As Emil already remarked, eix -uc will never be a replacement for emerge -NaDu @world @system. As a "workaround", if you are really annoyed by an update being displayed regularly, although you know that you don't want it, you might want to put the corresponding slot into /etc/portage/package.mask. However, this has the drawback that portage will not upgrade the slot later even if another package could use the new slot (and even if you have long forgotten that you have put the slot into package.mask).
IMHO, closing as CANTFIX would be appropriate.
In >=eix-0.14.2 you will be able to specify exceptions to UPGRADE_TO_HIGHEST_SLOT in /etc/portage/package.slot_upgrade_{allow,forbid}. So this will provide a "manual" workaround without any undesired side effects.
Martin, can this be closed now?
(In reply to comment #8) > Martin, can this be closed now? I guess so, since eix-0.14.2 is in the tree since today...
*** Bug 260598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
