Bug 84576 – emerge --changelog fails to display the Changelog entries for ebuilds located in a PORTDIR_OVERLAY

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christoph Budziszewski 2005-03-08 17:56:58 UTC]

The ChangeLog is not displayed although the File exists.
It works with "normal" ebuilds.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge --changelog --verbose --pretend nvi
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
discofish root # emerge --changelog --verbose --pretend nvi

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] app-editors/nvi-1.81.5-r3 [1.81.5-r2] 0 kB [2]

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage overlays:
 [1] /usr/local/portage
 [2] /usr/local/portage-local--main--1.0



Expected Results:  
discofish root # emerge --changelog --verbose --pretend nvi

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] app-editors/nvi-1.81.5-r3 [1.81.5-r2] 0 kB [2]

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage overlays:
 [1] /usr/local/portage
 [2] /usr/local/portage-local--main--1.0

*nvi-1.81.5-r3 (05 Mar 2005)

  05 Mar 2005; Sascha Silbe <[e-mail]>
  nvi-1.81.5-r3.ebuild:
  Use "alternatives" eclass to support installing vim and nvi in parallel.



discofish root # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.10-infra-r2-discofish i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-infra-r2-discofish i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  7 2005, 21:13:15)]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe  -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/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/qmail/alias
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe  -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
MAKEOPTS="-j5 -s"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage-local--main--1.0"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd
dvdr emboss encode f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif
gphoto2 gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos libcaca
libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nogcj
oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl
slang spell sqlite sse ssl tcltk tcpdtetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Marco Morales 2005-03-12 01:51:41 UTC]

Its invalid ... current version > next version, thats why you arent getting any text from changelog

[Comment 2 Sascha Silbe 2005-03-12 05:20:55 UTC]

The currently installed version is app-editors/nvi-1.81.5-r3, it's going to get upgraded to app-editors/nvi-1.81.5-r2. 100% ordinary upgrade procedure. If it were a downgrade, it would also have been marked as such by the "emerge -p" output. The package was released after the changes so the ChangeLog format is correct, too. 

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-03-12 06:46:50 UTC]

broken Changelog?

[Comment 4 Sascha Silbe 2005-03-12 06:53:29 UTC]

Created attachment 53258 [details]
ChangeLog from Portage overlay

[Comment 5 Marco Morales 2005-03-12 07:47:05 UTC]

Sorry for my misunderstood....
I dont know much python but it seems it doesnt handle suffixes and revision numbers... is it actually trying to do it or isnt it a feature at all?

[Comment 6 Pawel Madej aka Nysander 2008-11-24 23:18:12 UTC]

is this bug valid anymore? if not please close this bug

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2008-11-24 23:47:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=53258) [edit]
> ChangeLog from Portage overlay

It doesn't work because there's no ChangeLog entry for nvi-1.81.5-r2. There has to be entries for both the old version that's installed and the new one that will replace it. Also, your changelog is missing an asterisk (*) before "nvi-1.81.5-r3 (05 Mar 2005)". The asterisk is required. Bascally, you'd need two entries similar to these:

*nvi-1.81.5-r3 (05 Mar 2005)

  05 Mar 2005; Sascha Silbe <[e-mail]> 
  nvi-1.81.5-r3.ebuild:
  Use "alternatives" eclass to support installing vim and nvi in parallel.

*nvi-1.81.5-r2 (04 Mar 2005)

  04 Mar 2005; Sascha Silbe <[e-mail]> 
  nvi-1.81.5-r2.ebuild:
  Add older entry so emerge --changelog works.

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2008-11-24 23:50:55 UTC]

Please reopen if there's still a problem.