Bug 101394 – net-p2p/bittorrent 3.4.2-r2 -> 4.0.1 endless upgrade/downgrade loop

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michael Owen 2005-08-04 17:01:47 UTC]

While doing an emerge recently, I noticed that net-p2p/bittorrent wanted to be
downgraded. Nothing obvious in the ChangeLog for why it would be downgraded, but
I decided to let it. A few days later, I synced again, and this time it wanted
to be upgraded again, back to the previous version. So, I let it upgrade, but
after the emerge world completed, I decided to try it again. Lo and behold,
net-p2p/bittorrent wanted to be downgraded again. Below you can see what
happens, it's an endless loop. 

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idc00099p01 ~ # emerge -uDvp  world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] net-p2p/bittorrent-3.4.2-r2 [4.0.1] +X 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


idc00099p01 ~ # emerge -uDv world
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-p2p/bittorrent-3.4.2-r2 to /
<snip>
bittorrent-3.4.2-r2 merged.


idc00099p01 ~ # emerge -uDvp world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] net-p2p/bittorrent-4.0.1 [3.4.2-r2] +X 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


idc00099p01 ~ # emerge -uDv world
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-p2p/bittorrent-4.0.1 to /
<snip>
>>> net-p2p/bittorrent-4.0.1 merged.


idc00099p01 ~ # emerge -uDvp world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] net-p2p/bittorrent-3.4.2-r2 [4.0.1] +X 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
idc00099p01 ~ #


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =net-p2p/bittorrent-4.0.1
2. emerge -uvp world
3. emerge -uv world
4. goto 2

Actual Results:  
endless loop of changing version from 3.4.2-r2 to 4.0.1 and back again.

Expected Results:  
Should stay at 4.0.1


idc00099p01 ~ # grep bittorrent /etc/portage/*
idc00099p01 ~ #

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idc00099p01 ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/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/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cscope cups
curl dga dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode fam ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran
gcj gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile ieee1394
imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap libwww
lm_sensors lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mailwrapper matroska mbox mikmod milter mmap mng
motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi ncurses nls nptl nsplugin oci8 odbc offensive ogg
oggvorbis opengl oracle pam pda pdflib perl png portaudio ppds python qt
quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl silc skey smartcard sndfile snmp spell
ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode
usb userlocales v4l vcd vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xv xvid
zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Ian Donaldson 2005-08-24 22:55:54 UTC]

Someone "cleaned up" bittorrent-4.0.1.ebuild but that was the highest version previously marked stable 
for amd64.

[Comment 2 Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED) 2005-08-25 09:32:05 UTC]

Do you have gnome-btdownload installed?

[Comment 3 Michael Owen 2005-08-30 15:39:16 UTC]

Yes, it is. Looking at that ebuild, I see it requires bittorrent-3.4.x, which is
what is forcing the downgrade. Emerge world is deciding to upgrade again, as
4.0.1 is marked stable, which is why this endless loop is going on. I've removed
gnome-btdownload, as I'm not using it. 

[Comment 4 Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED) 2005-09-10 05:27:52 UTC]

Fixed.