Bug 324985

Summary:	--getbinpkg wrong behavior on emerge -uDN world update
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED) <hwoarang>
Component:	Binary packages support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-21 21:25:12 UTC

It is hard to explain it with actual words so I will show you what I mean

root@Eternity ~ # emerge -uDNav world
[..]
[ebuild     U ] app-text/poppler-0.14.0-r1 [0.12.4-r3] USE="abiword cairo cxx%* jpeg lcms png qt4 utils xpdf-headers -cjk -curl% -debug -exceptions -jpeg2k (-doc%)" 867 kB [0]
[..]

Notice that portage doesn't realize that I have poppler binary available on my mirror

However, when I try to emerge only poppler package I get


root@Eternity ~ # emerge -1av poppler

[..]
Calculating dependencies... done!
[binary     U ] app-text/poppler-0.14.0-r1 [0.12.4-r3] USE="abiword cairo cxx%* jpeg lcms png qt4 utils xpdf-headers -cjk -curl% -debug -doc -exceptions -jpeg2k" 
[..]

See? When I try to merge poppler only, portage realize that a binary package is available to use. 


Could somebody explain this weird behavior on emerge -uDN world?


Thank you

Comment 1 Sebastian Luther (few) 2010-06-21 21:35:40 UTC

There was a change in USE. The ebuild has "(-doc%)", while the binary has "-doc". Are you using --binpkg-respect-use? Please add emerge --info.

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-21 21:39:27 UTC

Created attachment 236183 [details]
emerge --info

No I don't use this switch, but shouldn't the behavior be the same for emerge -uDN world and emerge <package> ?

Comment 3 Sebastian Luther (few) 2010-06-22 06:16:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
>  but shouldn't the behavior be the same for emerge
> -uDN world and emerge <package> ?

No, there are two fundamental differences.

a) You have --update, --newuse and --deep enabled. Everyone of these modifies the package selection algorithm.

b) emerge -uDN world verifies dependencies of installed packages, while emerge <package> doesn't.

In your case --newuse is what leads to the difference. I agree that's a bit odd to see a difference between ("-doc" and "(-doc%)").

Comment 4 Sebastian Luther (few) 2010-06-30 20:34:50 UTC

Closing as invalid as agreed on IRC.