Bug 126575

Summary:	revdep-rebuild not compatible with EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joël <world.root>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	strowi
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joël 2006-03-17 11:36:33 UTC

I recently added the following line in /etc/make.conf:

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-v"

With this option and a recent ~x86 portage version (eg: 2.1_pre6-r3), the revdep-rebuild tool breaks.

The reason, I think, is that it uses the "emerge" command with specific flags, and parses its output. Because of EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, the output can change. In my case, for example, it receives info about USE flags that it doesn't expect.

Workaround: don't use EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS with revdep-rebuild

Solution:
(a) adding a flag to emerge, like --clear-opts, which ignores EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
(b) change every call in revdep-rebuild to call emerge as follows: 'EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" emerge xyz'

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-17 11:44:15 UTC

Works just fine with gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre3

Comment 2 Joël 2006-03-17 11:55:57 UTC

Sorry.. yes, I stupidly forgot to update gentoolkit (version 0.2.1 was still installed).

Thanks :-)

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-22 05:57:14 UTC

*** Bug 137570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***