Bug 86414 – emerge thinks mozilla and epiphany are new packages

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Evert 2005-03-23 11:28:23 UTC]

emerge thinks mozilla and epiphany are new packages, but they are already installed!

# ls -ld /var/db/pkg/net-www/{mozilla-1,epiphany-1}*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1024 Dec 25 04:13 /var/db/pkg/net-www/epiphany-1.4.6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1024 Dec 22 21:58 /var/db/pkg/net-www/mozilla-1.7.5


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync
2. emerge -uDp world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.6
[ebuild  N    ] www-client/epiphany-1.4.6


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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.6 [1.7.5]


Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1,
2.6.11.4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11.4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  8 2005, 20:00:50)]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3
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=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg distlocks sandbox sfperms"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
USE="x86 X aalib apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl directfb
dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm
gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang sse ssl svga
tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib
video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2005-03-23 11:52:52 UTC]

Category changed from net-www to www-client

This is a portage bug.  Portage should be reporting these as updates instead of new installs, even though the category changed.

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-03-23 12:26:23 UTC]

try running that command again as root.

[Comment 3 Evert 2005-03-23 23:55:14 UTC]

I was root...

[Comment 4 Evert 2005-03-24 10:35:16 UTC]

Did something change or what?
It's now like this:

# emerge -uDp world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.29 [1.23]
[ebuild     U ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.6-r1 [1.7.5]

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-03-24 12:48:28 UTC]

Your package database your updated, not sure why this wasn't done after the sync already.

[Comment 6 Evert 2005-03-26 10:18:56 UTC]

Not sure, but it could have been a filesystem full problem like which I was experiencing today...

[Comment 7 TGL 2005-03-29 04:43:15 UTC]

> not sure why this wasn't done after the sync already

I remember that i've had the same problem, and looking at the CVS web, and that looking at the CVS web i have seen there had been ~3 hours beetween the actual ebuild move and its declaration in profiles/updates/1Q-2005. This explains the problem for people who have synced during that time, and why it was fixed after their next sync.

[Comment 8 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-03-29 05:15:16 UTC]

Hmm, might be what Seemant was talking about. Anyway, not a bug.