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Bug 285167 - sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc40: --newuse drops packages without use changes
Summary: sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc40: --newuse drops packages without use changes
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2009-09-16 08:57 UTC by Allen Brooker (AllenJB)
Modified: 2022-10-20 02:43 UTC (History)
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Description Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-09-16 08:57:42 UTC
Setup:
I have a server set up to use binary packages generated by a similarly setup box. 

In this example, gentoolkit is up-to-date on the server, has no use flag changes, but the binary package file is newer (it was rebuilt on the source box due to a python update).

Steps to reproduce:
1. run "emerge -vatkN --with-bdeps=y --alphabetical -1D gentoolkit"
2. emerge will return that it won't emerge any packages.
3. run "emerge -vatk --with-bdeps=y --alphabetical -1D gentoolkit"
4. emerge returns that the package will be reinstalled.

Reasoning:
According to "emerge --help":
       --newuse (-N short option)
              Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags have 
              changed since installation.       

This says to me that --newuse should not drop packages from the list of packages to be installed, only add them to the list.

emerge --info:
Portage 2.2_rc40 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.18xenucorona0 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.18xenucorona0-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_5148_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-vatkN --alphabetical --with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="        http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo       http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/  http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/       http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ "
LANG="en_GB"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
PKGDIR="/home/allen/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl apache2 bash-completion bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran iconv idn ipv6 isdnlog ithreads mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly older-kernels-compatibility openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl subversion sysfs tcpd threads unicode vhosts webdev-neon x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir         disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap         include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy         proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling         status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2009-09-16 15:52:45 UTC
What you are observing is that --newuse implies the equivalent of the new --binpkg-respect-use option. Since it's available as a separate option now, I suppose it won't hurt to remove that behavior from --newuse.