Bug 30280 – ``emerge -Du world -p'' says gives bad update listing

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Portage Development

[Description mccary 2003-10-03 15:08:55 UTC]

i have java-sdk-docs-1.4.2. when i execute ``emerge -Du world -p'', portage tells me it 
wants to update my java-sdk-docs from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 (but i already have 1.4.2). 
 
see the output: 
 
bash-2.05b# emerge -Du world -p 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating world dependencies ...done! 
[ebuild    FU ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.1 [1.4.2] 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/xinetd-2.3.12 
[ebuild     U ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.28] 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/ant-1.5.3-r5 
 
bash-2.05b# emerge java-sdk-docs -p 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
[ebuild   RF  ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.2 
 
bash-2.05b# emerge info 
Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS=" -O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe " 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="  -O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe  " 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 apm cups encode foomaticdb libg++ mad mikmod ncurses nls pdflib 
quicktime spell xml2 gdbm berkdb slang readline svga gpm tcpd imlib java php perl 
python eiffel -postgres mysql kerberos pam crypt jpeg png gif tiff imagemagick mpeg 
avi asf xv sdl divx xvid oss xmms oggvorbis ogg vorbis mp3 -alsa -arts -esd ssl libwww 
usb ieee1394 firewire opengl nvidia mmx sse 3dnow X -kde -gnome -gtk -qt -gtk2 
-motif freetype truetype octave qhull ginac tetex fft ntl glut doc zlib bzip2" 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I have no idea how this situation occured. 
Actual Results:  
``emerge'' output is inconsistent with the installed packages. 

Expected Results:  
consistent output.

[Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-12-24 14:01:35 UTC]

Probably a slot/dependency issue.

Two packages depending on different versions of the same package.

If it's not resolved, it should go to the java people for a
more immediate fix.