Bug 17303 – emerge -U will still try to downgrade packages

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Scott Richey 2003-03-11 10:22:34 UTC]

I have xfree 4.2.99.4 installed on my system. I'd like to perform an emerge -u
world the update my system, but I often have to emerge -pu world to see the
listing, and manually put the packages on the command line. This is because
emerge will always try to downgrade my xfree, even when I use the -U (or
--upgradeonly) flag. This (IMO) is a big problem that needs to be addressed,
because sometimes I like to install masked packages, and I don't want them
downgraded when I emerge -u (or -U) world.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -pU world

Actual Results:  
metal root # emerge -pU world
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
 
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 [4.2.99.4]


Expected Results:  
It should not be trying to downgrade xfree.

metal root # emerge info
Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-ck2 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ "
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mp3/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts cups gif jpeg libg++ mikmod ncurses nls pdflib xmms
xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline svga tcltk java guile gpm libwww esd imlib
motif X gtk gnome alsa -qt -kde python perl oggvorbis opengl sdl jpg png
truetype xml xml2 dvd avi aalib mpeg encode mmx sse gtkhtml quicktime pam ssl crypt
tcpd mozilla mozctl spell mysql samba ldap snmp"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox distcc ccache"

[Comment 1 Ole Tange 2003-03-16 15:50:44 UTC]

I have Xfree 4.3.0 installed. When doing '-up world' xfree is schedueled for downgrade. 
When doing -Up xfree is not schedueled for downgrade. So I cannot reproduce your exact 
error. 
 
However, I have installed transcode-0.6.3 and this is schedueled for downgrade even 
with -Up. 
 
As this is only one package I probably will just re-emerge the newer version (0.6.3). 

[Comment 2 klavs klavsen 2003-04-01 05:06:28 UTC]

I also get this problem:

[ebuild    UD] sys-devel/m4-1.4 [1.4p]
..
[ebuild    UD] app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r12 [2.0-r1]
..
when using emerge -Up world

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-04-01 05:52:36 UTC]

m4 is normal

Downgrade m4 to 1.4 only, as the alpha/beta releases we were using up to
now have some issues.  Fix autoconf/gmp depend for this.

[Comment 4 Paul Kronenwetter 2003-04-07 18:15:39 UTC]

I'm seeing a similar behavior with two packages:
# emerge -U world -p
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] media-libs/id3lib-3.8.0 [3.8.2] 
[ebuild    UD] net-www/mozilla-1.2.1-r5 [1.3] 

I also have an interesting situation with --deep:
# emerge -U --deep world -p
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

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

Calculating world dependencies |
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-perl/XML-Twig" have been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "dev-perl/xmltv-0.5.8" [ebuild])

!!! Problem with ebuild dev-perl/xmltv-0.5.8
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.

I don't know if this is related or another bug. 

[Comment 5 Paul Kronenwetter 2003-04-23 11:33:28 UTC]

What I found with media-libs/id3lib-3.8.0 is that 3.8.0 didn't exist any more and it wanted to go back to the latest stable version (which is probably good behavior).  I don't know what was going on with mozilla.

[Comment 6 Andrea Cerrito 2003-06-10 14:50:00 UTC]

Yep. I saw emerge try to force downgrade for ebuilds that doesn't exist anymore.
Anyway, this can be an unwanted feature: I think emerge should have another option similar to -U with this add "keep my system".
I mean (IE):

cerrito root # emerge -UDp world
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/man-1.5l-r6 [1.5l-r5] 
[ebuild    U ] dev-libs/glib-2.2.2 [2.2.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.2 [2.2.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-libs/slang-1.4.9 [1.4.8] 
[ebuild    UD] media-video/transcode-0.6.4 [0.6.4.20030311] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/gal-1.99.7 [1.99.6] 
[ebuild    UD] gnome-extra/gconf-editor-0.4.1 [0.5.0] 
[ebuild    U ] media-libs/gstreamer-0.6.2 [0.6.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.2 [0.6.1] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/bug-buddy-2.2.106 [2.2.104] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/nautilus-media-0.2.2 [0.2.1] 
[ebuild    UD] x11-misc/superkaramba-0.21 [0.26] 
[ebuild    U ] net-libs/libsoup-1.99.23 [1.99.22] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-3.0.5 [3.0.4] 

cerrito root # emerge -UDKp world
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
>>> --keep force me to leave the system "as-is"

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/man-1.5l-r6 [1.5l-r5] 
[ebuild    U ] dev-libs/glib-2.2.2 [2.2.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.2 [2.2.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-libs/slang-1.4.9 [1.4.8] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/gal-1.99.7 [1.99.6] 
[ebuild    U ] media-libs/gstreamer-0.6.2 [0.6.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.2 [0.6.1] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/bug-buddy-2.2.106 [2.2.104] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/nautilus-media-0.2.2 [0.2.1] 
[ebuild    U ] net-libs/libsoup-1.99.23 [1.99.22] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-3.0.5 [3.0.4] 

[Comment 7 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-30 06:55:27 UTC]

*** Bug 23528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-30 06:55:55 UTC]

*** Bug 25180 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-30 06:56:16 UTC]

*** Bug 25573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 oliver stieber 2003-07-30 07:47:25 UTC]

I've reported bug  
Bug 25573 which has been marked duplicate. 
 
A few additonal notes are 
 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde 
tries to rebuild the current version of kde not the ~x86 masked version. 
So it looks like a problem with masking not -U 
 
trying to force kde 2.1.3 reports that all ebuilds are masked, i've had problems with 
other packages (OpenOffice Binaries) and can't see any problem in the ebuilds. 

[Comment 11 Robert 2004-02-20 16:09:10 UTC]

This just happened to my today as well and I second this bug report. Especially for a "beginner" it can be very confusing: "why if I tell it --upgrade-only will it still to downgrade something?"

Very illogical.

[Comment 12 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 19:36:02 UTC]

-U is deprecated and might be removed in future versions.