Bug 31452 – qpkg fix for use flags that are not explicitly disabled in /var/db/*/package/USE

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 15:34:52 UTC]

In a case when a use flag is not explicitly disabled in /var/db/*/package/USE,
qpkg outputs a wrong dependant package.

 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 15:36:51 UTC]

Created attachment 19435 [details, diff]
disable flags that aren't explicitly set

[Comment 2 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 15:40:54 UTC]

I figured out that virtuals are also ignored and RDEPENDS that span more
than one line aren't calculated right.
This should be solved and brought into consistency IMHO by calculating dependencies
using portage and not reimplementing the logic again, in bash...

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 20:29:52 UTC]

Wouldn't it be easy enough to do something like:

USE="$(cat /var/db/pkg/pkg-cat/pkg-ver/USE)" emerge -ep pkg

to get dependencies instead of parsing the ebuild?

[Comment 4 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 23:09:15 UTC]

The dependency of one package - yes.

But what qpkg is checking with -q requires checking the dependencies of all
the packages in the database.

It just that it takes far too long to invoke emerge -ep for one package,
that doing that for the whole database is not a good solution, IMHO

[Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 23:39:53 UTC]

Eh, its late.

[Comment 6 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2003-12-22 07:30:36 UTC]

Ok, should we close this bug? since the remake of qpkg is supposed to calculate deps using portage, so it is irrelevant in that case.

[Comment 7 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-01-07 14:15:20 UTC]

qpkg is deprecated by equery, which does all the deptree right. no need for this patch.