536962 – unable to force build a package listed in package.provided

Bug 536962 - unable to force build a package listed in package.provided

Summary: unable to force build a package listed in package.provided

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2015-01-18 11:53 UTC by Fedja Beader
Modified:	2015-02-23 06:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Fedja Beader 2015-01-18 11:53:50 UTC

emerge -1a timezone-data --buildpkgonly

These are the packages that would be built, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB

WARNING: A requested package will not be merged because it is listed in
package.provided:

  timezone-data pulled in by 'args'


Nothing to merge; quitting.



There is no way to force it?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-02-23 06:53:00 UTC

There's no reason not to allow package.provided packages to be built (but not installed) with --buildpkgonly. So, it could be implicitly allowed with --buildpkgonly, with no need to force it.