Bug 144300

Summary:	emerge alsa wants to emerge gentoo-sources
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) <hkbst>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	betelgeuse
Priority:	High
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-18 04:16:40 UTC

When I type "emerge -av alsa" emerge asks to remerge gentoo-sources instead of saying that there is no ebuild named alsa, which there isn't. This happens on both my ~amd64 desktop and on my x86 laptop.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-18 04:22:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143665 ***

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-18 04:23:35 UTC

Blah, not a dupe.

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-18 04:24:19 UTC

This is not a bug at all.

# emerge -pv virtual/alsa

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r5  USE="-build symlink (-ultra1)" 0 kB 

# grep alsa /usr/portage/eclass/kernel-2.eclass 
	kernel_is gt 2 4 && PROVIDE="${PROVIDE} virtual/alsa"

Comment 4 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-18 05:10:58 UTC

But shouldn't there be a virtual/alsa euhh atom? Like virtual/xft exists and is in the list when you emerge it.

Comment 5 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-18 07:28:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> But shouldn't there be a virtual/alsa euhh atom? Like virtual/xft exists and is
> in the list when you emerge it.
> 

This is the difference between new and old style virtuals. Old style virtuals just give you the choice it would install instead of virtual/<virtual> that the new virtuals that are actual ebuild gives.