when emerging portage, emerge will restart itself. Until now "--ask" is already filtered for this restart, but "--tree" or "--changelog" are left. As they imply "--pretend", the restart will then abort. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. $ emerge --info Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 6 2004, 15:41:47)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dvddvdr encode esd f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm ggi gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k junit kde libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: LDFLAGS
Created attachment 49039 [details, diff] emerge.patch (mostly untested) patch removing --tree and --changelog before restarting. didn't want to downgrade portage, so I could try the patch. But the patch is just two lines long (and you should easily spot any error).
should be "... *couldn't* try the patch. ..." in my last comment. small typo.
But if they imply --pretend, portage won't get merged and thus emerge won't get restarted. Right? :)
that's what "emerge" says. in reality "--tree" and "--changelog" don't imply "--pretend" but can also be used with "--ask".
current version handles these cases correctly. If I shouldn't have closed this bug, please reopen.
