Bug 107327 – Wants to add per package display of ~arch and M

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description jb 2005-09-26 14:13:10 UTC]

when emerging with the -v option, it display a notice for package in overloay, as
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/genpass-0.2  10 kB [1]
Portage overlays:
 [1] /usr/local/portage

Is it possible to display the ~arch and the fact that the package is masked in a
similar way, per exemple like that :
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/genpass-0.2  10 kB [1] [~86] [M]

Because of the per ebuild keyword, it can be of a great help.
thanks

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2005-09-26 15:51:32 UTC]

Current behavior is for emerge -pv <masked/~arch/not keyworded package> is for 
emerge to display to you that it is not keyworded/masked.

For example:

emerge -pv mol

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

Calculating dependencies   
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "mol" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- app-emulation/mol-0.9.71_pre1-r2 (masked by: -* keyword)
- app-emulation/mol-0.9.71_pre1 (masked by: -* keyword)
- app-emulation/mol-0.9.71_pre1-r1 (masked by: -* keyword)
- app-emulation/mol-0.9.70 (masked by: -* keyword)
- app-emulation/mol-0.9.70-r1 (masked by: -* keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.

You want this changed to read:
[ebuild  N   ] app-emulation/mol-0.9.71_pre1-r2 0kB [-*]

Personally I dislike it because it doesn't immediately tell you that something 
is wrong, ie that mol is not keyworded.

[Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-09-26 18:35:31 UTC]

My understanding was that the request is for packages that are unmasked. If 
it's for packages that are masked, then no way... 

[Comment 3 jb 2005-09-27 04:00:14 UTC]

Sorry, I was not clear enough.

In make.conf, i have commented ~x86.
In /etc/portage/package.keyword, there is a line like :

sys-apps/genpass-0.2 ~x86

Has I have commented the ~x86 in make.conf, It's not easy to see if genpass will
be emerge in the stable way or in the instable way, because I have to parse the
full package.keyword file to find that.

Therefore, I want emerge to display the fact that the package i'm going to
emerge will be a ~arch version.

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-09-27 21:59:48 UTC]

I'd rather not do this for the following reasons:
- it requires some IMO nasty internal tricks
- it gets quite complicated as soon as you think outside of the normal
arch->~samearch update
- it doesn't deal nice with temoporary env changes
- is it only for arch->~arch updates? or also for ~arch->~arch updates? what
about ~arch->arch or p.mask->~arch? In short: too many possible combinations
(one of the drawbacks of the masking system).

Unless someone fundamentally disagrees with me I'd consider this WONTFIX.

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-09-30 02:57:20 UTC]

closing as per previous comment.