emerge nspr (or world) upgrades nspr to 4.4.1-r2 do it again, it gets downgraded to 4.4.1 do it again, it gets upgraded to 4.4.1-r2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge world 2.emerge world 3.repeat Actual Results: As above Expected Results: stop after upgrading? Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 142 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=opteron -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=opteron -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berk-db berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cups dvd esd f77 fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox mimemmap msn multilib mysql ncurses nls odbc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pda pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sndfile soap sox spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb userlocales videos wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib" cat /etc/portage/package.keywords net-www/mozilla-bin ~amd64 mail-filter/spamassassin ~amd64 app-pda/pilot-link ~amd64 net-p2p/pysoulseek ~amd64 games-rpg/nwn ~amd64 x11-plugins/guifications ~amd64 media-video/nvidia-kernel ~amd64 media-video/nvidia-glx ~amd64 media-video/nvidia-settings ~amd64 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia ~amd64 games-strategy/xscorch ~amd64 x11-misc/xearth ~amd64
This can happen from time to time with conflicting dependencies. I'm not sure about this case, but sometimes it may happen, that you have to decide what you want, since not always the conflict is solvable. `man portage` tells you how to deal with it locally. Travis: gaim-encryption-2.32 will be the culprit, since it depends on <dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2.
I can confirm this. Alternates for me too on amd64.
The gaim-encrypt package currently in unstable does not have this dependency problem - someone realized that only depending on nss (which itself has an nspr dependency) streamlines things If gaim-encyption 2.32-r1 is in acceptable shape, then marking it stable should close this bug.
Instead of fixing this one dependency, can this be set so that emerge/portage prevents this kind of thing?
I've had bugs like this one before on alpha and it was an inconsistency in portage, and it looks like it's an inconsistency again, for me on alpha and for others on amd64. And while investigating, I bumped on another bug: emerge -uDp world differs from emerge -uDpk world I've reported a bug like this quite some time ago and thought it was solved, but apparently, it isn't! Look at the output of the following commands # emerge -uDp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 [4.4.1] # emerge -uDp --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] x11-plugins/gaim-encryption-2.32 [ebuild UD] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 [4.4.1-r2] # emerge -uDpk world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! # emerge -uDpk --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! # emerge -pk =dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [binary UD] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 [4.4.1-r2] # emerge -k =dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 [...] >>> dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 merged. [...] # emerge -uDp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 [4.4.1] # emerge -uDp --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] net-im/gaim-1.0.2-r1 [nomerge ] dev-libs/nss-3.9.2-r2 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 [4.4.1] # emerge -uDpk world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [binary U ] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 [4.4.1] # emerge -uDpk --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] net-im/gaim-1.0.2-r1 [nomerge ] dev-libs/nss-3.9.2-r2 [binary U ] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 [4.4.1] # emerge -uDk world Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 to / [...] >>> dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1-r2 merged. [...] # emerge -uDp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 [4.4.1-r2] # emerge -uDp --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] x11-plugins/gaim-encryption-2.32 [ebuild UD] dev-libs/nspr-4.4.1 [4.4.1-r2] # emerge -uDpk world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! # emerge -uDpk --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done!
Please fix this bug, it's really gonna get irritating seeing we have to upgrade and downgrade the same package over and over again! And yes, this is a bug, this kind of bug happened to portage before, see bug #45865 and bug #59964 Thanx in advance, that is, if it's gonna get fixed within a few days!
This upgrade/downgrade bug seems to have gone for alpha. For amd64 I can't tell since I don't have amd64.
I am closing this.
