For about a month now, portage will emerge dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 when doing 'emerge -uDN @world' only to unmerge it again when doing 'emerge --depclean'. The depclean step only sometimes wants to unmerge it though. These are two consecutive runs of 'emerge --depclean'. There are no other commands in between: ====================================== $ emerge -p --depclean * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. * * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a * consequence of this, it often becomes necessary to run * `emerge --update --newuse --deep @world` prior to depclean. Calculating dependencies... done! >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean >>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose Packages installed: 1312 Packages in world: 157 Packages in system: 43 Required packages: 1312 Number to remove: 0 $ emerge -p --depclean * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. * * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a * consequence of this, it often becomes necessary to run * `emerge --update --newuse --deep @world` prior to depclean. Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Calculating removal order... >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-lang/vala selected: 0.44.7 protected: none omitted: 0.42.7 All selected packages: =dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Packages installed: 1312 Packages in world: 157 Packages in system: 43 Required packages: 1311 Number to remove: 1 ====================================== Nothing changed between these two invocations. 'emerge --depclean' is erratic on whether to unmerge this package or not.
$ emerge --info portage Portage 2.3.75 (python 3.6.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-9.2.0, glibc-2.29-r5, 4.19.71-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.19.71-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2500K_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: 16392384 total, 12049848 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:26:02 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 2519a79436037eca5198f5a5337110a80182969b Head commit of repository flatpak-overlay: 4b1f8e2f46cdb9217c8f77384ca9d23930ecfd8e sh bash 5.0_p11 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.32 p2) 2.32.0 app-shells/bash: 5.0_p11::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.0::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.16::gentoo, 3.6.9::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.15.3::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.18::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.32-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 9.2.0::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r5::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.2::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.29-r5::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /mnt/Data/gentoo/portage sync-type: git sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git priority: -1000 sync-git-verify-commit-signature: true abendbrot location: /var/lib/layman/abendbrot masters: gentoo priority: 50 flatpak-overlay location: /usr/local/flatpak-overlay sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/fosero/flatpak-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 interactive-fiction location: /var/lib/layman/interactive-fiction masters: gentoo priority: 50 seden location: /var/lib/layman/seden masters: gentoo priority: 50 steam-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 vapoursynth location: /var/lib/layman/vapoursynth masters: gentoo priority: 50 local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 9999999 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -mtune=native -march=native -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/vmware-installer" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -mtune=native -march=native -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/mnt/Data/gentoo/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--backtrack=200" ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME 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--exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi activities amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo cli crypt cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gpm gtk iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde kipi kwallet lcms libnotify libtirpc linguas_en linguas_en_US lto mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nptl nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf pgo phonon plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt5 readline seccomp spell split-usr ssl startup-notification svg systemd tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis vulkan wayland widgets wxwidgets xattr xcb xcomposite xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate 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webcommon websvccommon xml" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-2" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/portage-2.3.75-r1::gentoo was built with the following: USE="(ipc) native-extensions rsync-verify xattr -build -doc -epydoc -gentoo-dev (-selinux)" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -pypy -python3_5 -python3_7"
Created attachment 589446 [details] emerge -pv --depclean (doesn't unmerge) This is the verbose log of 'emerge -pv --depclean' when it comes up empty and doesn't want to remove vala.
Created attachment 589448 [details] emerge -pv --depclean (wants to unmerge) And this is the verbose log of when it does want to unmerge vala.
The dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 instance is optional, pulled in by dependencies like this from vala.eclass $(vala_depend): > || ( dev-lang/vala:0.46[vapigen(+)] dev-lang/vala:0.44[vapigen(+)] dev-lang/vala:0.42[vapigen(+)] dev-lang/vala:0.40[vapigen(+)] dev-lang/vala:0.36[vapigen(+)] ) Meanwhile the dev-lang/vala-0.42.7 instance is required by gnome-base/dconf-editor-3.30.2 since it constrains $(vala_depend) like this: > VALA_MIN_API_VERSION="0.40" > VALA_MAX_API_VERSION="0.42" > || ( dev-lang/vala:0.42 dev-lang/vala:0.40 )
The changes for bug 701996 may have influenced the behavior for vala dependencies, given reports like bug 702806 and bug 705700.
This should be fixed by the patch for bug 707108.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=d77d933b4a9cb2b830e661806a2a8689ffbac0ef commit d77d933b4a9cb2b830e661806a2a8689ffbac0ef Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-01 04:53:45 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-01 20:54:11 +0000 depclean: do not eliminate upgrades (bug 707108) For depclean actions, prefer choices where all packages have been pulled into the graph, except for choices that eliminate upgrades. This solves the test case for bug 707108, where depclean eliminated a new slot of python that had been pulled in by a world update. This should also prevent non-deterministic elimination of the latest vala slot that was reported in bug 693790. NOTE: There's a common perception (expressed in bug 705700) that emerge is pulling in an "unecessary" python slot in cases when that python slot is not enabled in PYTHON_TARGETS. However, the so-called "unnecessary" slot is practically indistinguishable from a desirable upgrade such as the missed llvm slot upgrade that was reported in bug 706278. Therefore, be advised that emerge must pull in the highest visible slot (regardless of PYTHON_TARGETS) in order to ensure that a desirable upgrade is not missed. Fixes: f7d83d75c6b0 ("dep_zapdeps: adjust || preference for slot upgrades (bug 706278)") Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/707108 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706278 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705700 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/693790 Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> lib/portage/dep/dep_check.py | 23 +++++++++++++---------- lib/portage/tests/resolver/test_or_choices.py | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4f78a86ac5ba0150aa679c7feaf64a5ad67316ef commit 4f78a86ac5ba0150aa679c7feaf64a5ad67316ef Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-01 22:03:22 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-01 22:13:24 +0000 sys-apps/portage: Bump to version 2.3.87 #691798 emerge: treat GLEP 81 acct-* categories like virtual #693790 depclean sometimes wants to remove latest vala slot #707108 depclean: do not eliminate upgrades Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706142 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/693790 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/707108 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.87, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> sys-apps/portage/Manifest | 1 + sys-apps/portage/portage-2.3.87.ebuild | 260 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 261 insertions(+)
