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Bug 168496

Summary: app-portage/esearch-0.7.1-r4 does not always detect installed apps
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP <dhp_gentoo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: /tmp/emerge--info

Description DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2007-02-26 20:10:43 UTC
Recently emerged rox-session, and when doing some more eseach, I was surprised to see that esearch says it's not installed. Did not esync by mean time. Yes I expect esearch to be aware immediatly of installed apps !!!

root@moon_gen_2:~# esearch rox-session
[ Results for search key : rox-session ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  rox-base/rox-session
      Latest version available: 0.29
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 383 kB
      Homepage:    http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_session.html
      Description: Rox-Session is a really simple session manager
      License:     GPL-2


root@moon_gen_2:~# emerge -vp rox-base/rox-session

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] rox-base/rox-session-0.29  0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
root@moon_gen_2:~#
Comment 1 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2007-02-26 20:11:01 UTC
Created attachment 111347 [details]
/tmp/emerge--info
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-26 22:31:50 UTC
Here's a cool idea - run eupdatedb