Bug 547532 – sys-apps/portage: emerge --search randomly returns wrong installation status with --search-index=y

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Zac Medico 2015-04-24 01:17:23 UTC]

When VdbMetadataDelta.applyDelta() processes an "add" event, another package instance from the same slot (that was replaced) can remain in the cache. Then IndexedVardb.match returns both instances, and search.getInstallationStatus() can randomly show the wrong instance installed.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2015-04-24 16:36:39 UTC]

There's a patch in the following branch:

	https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_547532

I've posted it for review here:

	https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/f50ed3f2727f93926e770d3d09b3864e

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2015-04-24 17:58:09 UTC]

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=89a48c206f007d4b1e323c089842cd6475c1eea2

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2015-05-09 06:02:25 UTC]

The "add" event handling was fixed by 89a48c206f007d4b1e323c089842cd6475c1eea2, but "remove" events need similar handling. There's a new patch in my branch:

https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_547532

I've posted it for review here:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/ec5962dd5b97280331739025d834f2dd

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2015-05-09 07:35:03 UTC]

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=8207c1ea97456f71fc32e2c264be27b348677853

[Comment 5 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2015-05-19 19:43:36 UTC]

Released in portage-2.2.19