Bug 24205

Summary:	Dependency ping-pong
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Roger Luethi <rl>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Roger Luethi 2003-07-09 14:43:21 UTC

I noticed a few times that
emerge world --deep -up
would result in a cycle of upgrades and downgrades
(for consecutive calls of the command above, no emerge
sync or other activity involved).

For instance, with galeon installed, I get a cycle
between mozilla-1.3-r2 and mozilla-1.4.
With kvim installed, vim-core will cycle between 6.1-rX
and 6.2-r1.

Basically, the system doesn't realize an upgrade is removing
a dependency for some package until it has actually done it.
On the following emerge, it reverts the mistake, only to repeat
it again next time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-09 15:05:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13632 ***