Bug 261224 – app-portage/portage-2.1.6.7: emerge -p shows USE flags wrongly disabled

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Eric Westbrook 2009-03-04 20:52:33 UTC]

Despite being in make.conf and even in package.use, certain use flags are marked (-flag%*) during emerge -p.  "euse -i" shows them enabled, as does eix.  Example showing this for the "ipv6" use flag:

# emerge -upv www-client/mozilla-firefox

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/glib-2.16.6 [2.16.5] USE="-debug -doc% -fam -hardened (-selinux) -xattr" 4,469 kB
[ebuild     U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.6-r1 [1.9.0.5] USE="java -custom-optimization -dbus -gnome -startup-notification (-ipv6%*)" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.6 [3.0.5] USE="java xulrunner -bindist -custom-optimization -dbus -gnome -iceweasel -mozdevelop -restrict-javascript -startup-notification (-ipv6%*)" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -bn -bn_IN -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -en_US -eo -es -es_AR -es_ES -et -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gl -gu -gu_IN -he -hi -hi_IN -hu -id -is -it -ja -ka -kn -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -mn -mr -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -oc -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -sq -sr -sv -sv_SE -te -th -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Total: 3 packages (3 upgrades), Size of downloads: 4,469 kB

# euse -i ipv6
global use flags (searching: ipv6)
************************************************************
[+ CD ] ipv6 - Adds support for IP version 6


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -pav www-client/mozilla-firefox
OR 2. emerge -pav net-libs/xulrunner
OR 3. emerge -pav app-text/poppler (affects "jpeg" USE flag in this case)

[Comment 1 Eric Westbrook 2009-03-04 20:53:30 UTC]

Created attachment 183933 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2009-03-04 21:08:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Despite being in make.conf and even in package.use, certain use flags are
> marked (-flag%*) during emerge -p.  "euse -i" shows them enabled, as does eix. 

Either the euse/eix output is incorrect or you've misinterpreted it. The emerge output is correct and it's showing you that the ipv6 flag has been removed from IUSE. For example, you can query IUSE like this:

portageq metadata / ebuild net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.6-r1 IUSE
custom-optimization gnome dbus startup-notification elibc_FreeBSD java

See, there's no ipv6 flag in IUSE because it's been removed.

[Comment 3 Eric Westbrook 2009-03-04 21:15:18 UTC]

Hmm.  I should have noticed that.  My bad, then, thanks and sorry.