Bug 279041

Summary:	portage does not discard messages from previous failed merges for the same package
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	335925

Description Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2009-07-25 12:41:55 UTC

I frequently see packages failing.  Then when I fix them and reemerge the package, I end up e.g. like this:

>>> Completed installing ncftp-3.2.2-r1 into /Library/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/image/Library/Gentoo/

ecompressdir: lzma  /Library/Gentoo/usr/share/man

>>> Installing (1 of 1) net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1
 * checking 29 files for package collisions
--- /Library/Gentoo/etc/
--- /Library/Gentoo/usr/
--- /Library/Gentoo/usr/bin/
>>> /Library/Gentoo/usr/bin/ncftp

>>> Recording net-ftp/ncftp in "world" favorites file...

 * Messages for package net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1:

 * ERROR: net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1 failed:
 *   econf failed
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh:  42: <call src_compile>
 *             environment:2287: <call econf>
 *               ebuild.sh: 538:                        die "econf failed"
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

Now this is confusing, as the merge went fine.  I'm not completely sure if it happens with emerge, alone.  For this case I first used "ebuild ... install" (which failed), and then used emerge for the same package.  It may be related to that, but I thought I observed the same when having a failing emerge on a normal Linux with Portage 2.2

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2010-04-06 02:02:20 UTC

Portage 2.1.8.3 is affected when ebuild <...> install fails and then emerge works (or if emerge fails in a different way, it is a different message)

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-04-06 17:12:23 UTC

This is fixed in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=ce921f3ccba0cf1f1568b4a8ecc39a8b90f75349

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-22 04:13:13 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.9.