Tried to search the descriptions 4 once ...Got very strange results: lappy # emerge search kismet Searching... [ Results for search key : kismet ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-analyzer/kismet Latest version Available: 2.4.6 Latest version Installed: 2.4.6 Homepage: http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Description: Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. lappy # emerge -S kismet Searching... [ Results for search key : kismet ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-analyzer/kismet Latest version Available: 2.4.6 Latest version Installed: 2.4.6 Homepage: http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Description: Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. lappy # emerge -S wireless Searching... [ Results for search key : wireless ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * sys-apps/wireless-tools Latest version Available: 24 Latest version Installed: 24 Homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html Description: Wireless Tools * x11-misc/gkrellmwireless Latest version Available: 0.2.2 Latest version Installed: 0.2.2 Homepage: http://gkrellm.luon.net/ Description: A plugin for GKrellM that monitors your wireless network card * net-analyzer/airsnort-0.2.1a Latest version Available: 0.2.1a Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ] Homepage: http://airsnort.shmoo.com/\ Description: AirSnort 802.11b Wireless Packet Sniffer/WEP Cracker * net-analyzer/kismet-2.4.6 Latest version Available: 2.4.6 Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ] Homepage: http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Description: Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. Suddenly KISMET NOT INSTALLED ?!?! And I lost airsnort too...Ehhh, huh ? ;) * sys-apps/portage Latest version Available: 2.0.27 Latest version Installed: 2.0.27 Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system Regards, Rigo
*** Bug 6211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I confirm. Here's another example: ----- laptop portage # emerge -p kde-env These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-env-1 to / laptop portage # emerge -s kde-env Searching... [ Results for search key : kde-env ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * kde-base/kde-env Latest version Available: 1 Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ] Homepage: Description: Sets up some env.d files for kde ------- (kde-env isn't in portage yet) It reports it as installed for emerge -p, but not for emerge -s.
Daniel, I finally found my/out problem related to -S I think: _alpha3 output -S: portage # emerge -S bookmark Searching... /portage: visible(): None is an invalid cat/pkg-v string. Aborting processing. /portage: visible(): None is an invalid cat/pkg-v string. Aborting processing. \!!! doebuild: /usr/portage/sys-apps/stream-bin/stream-bin-1.0.ebuild not found. portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for sys-apps/stream-bin-1.0 (likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the sys-apps/stream-bin-1.0 ebuild.) !!! doebuild: /usr/portage/sys-apps/stream-bin/stream-bin-1.0.ebuild not found. portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for sys-apps/stream-bin-1.0 (likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the sys-apps/stream-bin-1.0 ebuild.) * sys-apps/stream [ Masked ] I checked, but this ebuild doesn't seem to be in /usr/portage and/or in /var/db/pkg Regards, Rigo
Rigo, yes this is the problem. This problem was either a side-effect of another bug or the result of syntax errors in ebuilds. Other bug fixed, syntax errors in ebuilds are another issue, so closing this bug.
alpha3 is WAY cool Daniel, chapeau de luxe ;-D ! Rigo
