Bug 27702 – Injected packages and world file entries

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Narada Sage 2003-09-01 05:56:01 UTC]

The following set of steps is very quick to follow.

$ wc -l /var/cache/edb/world
324

$ emerge -i sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22
>>> Injected sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22.

$ emerge -i net-mail/evolution-1.4.4
>>> Injected net-mail/evolution-1.4.4.

$ regenworld
<snip>
add to world: net-mail/evolution
add to world: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources

$ wc -l /var/cache/edb/world
326

$ emerge -C vanilla-sources evolution
>>> Unmerging sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22...
No package files given... Grabbing a set.
>>> Unmerging net-mail/evolution-1.4.4...
No package files given... Grabbing a set.

$ wc -l /var/cache/edb/world
326

This last number should be 324 as two previously injected packages have been
removed.  The lesson is that when unmerging injected packages corresponding
entries from world file should be removed.  You never know when a user may run
regenworld.  My world file has been building up like this for quite a while and
the only way to get a real count is to delete the world file and regenerate.

$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test4-bk2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test4-bk2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1200MHz
distcc 2.10 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs buildpkg"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg mad mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib
png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb alsa berkdb slang readline
aalib bonobo svga tcltk java mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python
imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr acpi acpi4linux apache2 dvd faad
fax fbcon fbdev gd gmtsuppl imagemagick imap kerberos lcd maildir md5sum nptl
offensive openal parse-clocks pcmcia php pnp ppds S3TC sse tiff transcode usb
xml xosd -apm -arts -cups -kde -gnome -libg++ -mikmod -nls -qt -spell -gtkhtml
-gdbm -guile -esd"

[Comment 1 Narada Sage 2003-09-02 00:53:16 UTC]

An alternative solution to this problem is that the regenworld script can be modified to detect injected packages in /var/db/pkg and to not add them to the world file in the first place.  Perhaps this would be a cleaner solution.

[Comment 2 Marcelo Borges Ribeiro 2004-04-05 17:56:30 UTC]

I noticed in my system that I installed all 2.6.x kernel (did 2.6.5 this weekend) and in /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.5 there is only
a file called COUNTER. I think it should contain a file that describes it privides alsa, gentoo-sources, etc so it stops asking to emerge alsa-libs or gentoo-sources everytime it finds a dependency with this package.

[Comment 3 Marcelo Borges Ribeiro 2004-04-05 17:57:34 UTC]

I forgot to mention I installed manually and used inject to tell this to the system.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-04-05 18:04:00 UTC]

virtuals are handled in /var/cache/edb/virtuals not in /var/db/pkg/

[Comment 5 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-05-03 07:03:31 UTC]

--inject has been deprecated.