Bug 310947

Summary:	preference of "installed packages" over "packages available in the tree"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) <jkt>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs, esigra
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	335925

Description Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-23 16:27:15 UTC

I have a system with the old, split ebuilds for poppler, dev-libs/poppler and friends. I want to "upgrade poppler, whatever it is":

velbloud ~ # emerge -1av poppler
 
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
 
Calculating dependencies... done!
 
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-libs/poppler".


But there surely is a "poppler" package:

velbloud ~ # qsearch poppler
app-text/poppler PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base
app-text/poppler-data Data files for poppler to support uncommon encodings without xpdfrc
dev-python/python-poppler Python bindings to the Poppler PDF library.
dev-ruby/ruby-poppler Ruby poppler-glib bindings
gnustep-libs/popplerkit PopplerKit is a GNUstep/Cocoa framework for accessing and rendering PDF content.


Calling emerge with C/P works fine, though. It might be worth considering if it makes sense not to prefer the installed package at such circumstances.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-05-27 10:46:31 UTC

Thanks, this is fixed in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=df1e465d93291689e425ddfd211d8680341322da

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-08-23 06:17:30 UTC

This is in 2.2_rc68, but I'll leave this bug open until it's in an unmasked version.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-08-29 05:13:37 UTC

*** Bug 335103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-04 08:21:54 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.9.