Bug 232924

Summary:	portage should dump a list of valid sets if an invalid one is specified
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) <agaffney>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	210077

Description Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-25 14:12:55 UTC

Currently, there's no way for portage to spit out a list of valid sets. With pkgcore, if you specify an invalid set on the commandline, it will tell you what the valid ones are:

kirara ~ # pmerge -p -s foo
No set called 'foo'!
known sets: ['glsa', 'installed', 'versioned-installed', 'system', 'world', 'vuln']

Can we get this same functionality for portage?

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-07-26 07:57:42 UTC

Here's how it looks now:

# emerge @foo
emerge: There are no sets to satisfy 'foo'. The following sets exist:

    installed
    preserved-rebuild
    security
    system
    world

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-26 16:01:23 UTC

Perfect...you rock! :P

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-07-28 10:42:10 UTC

This is fixed in 2.2_rc4.