Bug 194229

Summary:	revdep-rebuild -X not documented in gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre7
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	impulze
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial	CC:	t35t0r
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description impulze 2007-09-29 23:04:34 UTC

in the name of krushia i'll file this bug about revdep-rebuild in gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre7.
it is a reintroduced switch but is not documented in --help nor in the manpage

probably related to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187366

Comment 1 t35t0r 2007-09-30 04:40:32 UTC

is this a known bug?:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-590924.html

..krushia agrees this is not expected behavior. The -X doesn't do anything since it's supposed to be "default" behavior but I get version numbers.

Comment 2 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-01 18:48:00 UTC

It is working as designed. -X is no longer a usable option and is only present for backwards compatibility.  Secondly, you are misunderstanding how revdep-rebuild works. revdep-rebuild always passes the version to the emerge command.  The difference is when in exact mode, it will pass the version that is currently installed.  When not in exact mode, it will determine the best version available and pass that to the emerge command.  This can be seen by the following output:

# revdep-rebuild --exact --verbose --pretend
...
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34  0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

# revdep-rebuild --verbose --pretend
...
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34-r1 [2.34] 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB