Bug 184983

Summary:	emerge --newuse - re-emerge triggered on USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN stuff changes without any visible reason
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	trefoil <gentoo>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jakub
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	181949
Attachments:	portage-2.1.3_rc8 patch to prevent flags from being hidden when appropriate

Description trefoil 2007-07-11 18:47:57 UTC

I've never experienced this before. Portage wants to re-emerge installed packages that have no different use flags and are not updates. Even when I allow it to emerge these packages, and re-run emerge --update world --deep -av --newuse, it wants to emerge them again. I believe this started happening since 2.1.2.9, and it persists after several syncs. Please send help.

localhost ~ # emerge --update world --deep -av --newuse

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

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1  USE="nls -doc -emacs -nocxx" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.5  USE="nls -static" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] dev-util/subversion-1.4.4-r2  USE="berkdb nls perl python -apache2 -bash-completion -emacs -java -nowebdav -ruby" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2-r2  USE="X -debug -doc (-selinux)" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3  USE="X cups gtk xml -cjk -threads" 0 kB 

Total: 5 packages (5 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-11 18:49:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161980 ***

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-11 19:03:07 UTC

Reopen.

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-11 19:03:49 UTC

As noted on the other bug - find a solution that doesn't confuse the hell out of users,

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-07-11 19:22:21 UTC

I think I'll fix the USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN hidden code so that these flags aren't hidden when a package is being reinstalled due to one of these flags.

Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-11 19:27:52 UTC

I'd still say that re-emerging packages on this kind of IUSE changes is not useful, but the above solution is still much better than the current state of things. :)

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-07-11 20:53:48 UTC

FWIW, the current workaround to see the flags is this:

USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="-*" emerge <args>

Comment 7 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-07-12 00:16:02 UTC

Created attachment 124602 [details, diff]
portage-2.1.3_rc8 patch to prevent flags from being hidden when appropriate

This is fixed in svn r7238.

Comment 8 trefoil 2007-07-15 02:05:41 UTC

Thank you both for your help. Portage is the one of the few areas of Gentoo where I feel like I'm being treated with respect wrt bug reports. :)

Comment 9 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-07-22 22:54:51 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.3_rc9.