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Bug 139479

Summary: about case sensitive atoms
Product: Portage Development Reporter: David Carlos Manuelda <StormByte>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description David Carlos Manuelda 2006-07-06 13:46:30 UTC
This bug is a real nonsense, but It may be confusing. Some atoms (parameters) are case sentitive and doesn't work for some emerge options, and same may be not case sensitive to another options.

Example of reproduction:

emerge -s imageMagick (works)
Searching...
[ Results for search key : imageMagick ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-gfx/imagemagick
      Latest version available: 6.2.5.5
      Latest version installed: 6.2.5.5
      Size of files: 4,926 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.imagemagick.org/
      Description:   A collection of tools and libraries for many image formats
      License:       as-is

emerge -pv imageMagick (does not work)
>>> --pretend disables --ask... removing --ask from options.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "imageMagick".

emerge --version:
Portage 2.1.1_pre2-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64)
Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-07-06 13:58:17 UTC
Well, -s doesn't take atoms but search queries, so this isn't inconsistent. Atoms and CPV entries are always case sensitive.