Bug 351598

Summary:	emerge -avDuN not pulling in all packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Alex Orange <crazycasta>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex Orange 2011-01-13 20:07:25 UTC

When I do:
sudo emerge -avDuN world
some of the packages are not updated.

When I do:
emerge -avc
it complains of required packages not being installed.

When I do:
emerge -ave world
it reports 8 upgrades, 1 new, 1 in new slot, 1035 reinstalls. The missing packages are:

U  app-arch/cabextract-1.3
U  dev-lang/fpc-2.4.0
N  dev-python/cython-0.13
U  dev-python/markupsafe-0.11
U  dev-lang/yasm-1.1.0
U  dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1
U  sys-apps/ed-1.4
NS sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4
U  dev-python/sphinx-1.0.4
U  dev-python/jinja-2.5.5

I apologize for not have a copy paste. The computer is not connected to the internet at the moment.

While I can of course merge these packages one by one, it is quite annoying that emerge -avDuN world does not work. This is a problem that I have seen at other times. I don't have any idea what causes the problem or how to reproduce it.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Missed 10 packages in emerge -avDuN world

Expected Results:  
All packages are upgraded/installed.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-01-13 20:38:04 UTC

You should try --with-bdeps=y as mentioned in the faq:

  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.xml

Comment 2 Alex Orange 2011-01-15 07:18:28 UTC

Yes, that works great. Can someone explain the reasoning behind having different defaults for -DuN vs -av --depclean?

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-01-15 08:20:39 UTC

People typically don't want build-time deps removed by --depclean, since they'll have to install them again anyway the next time they are needed for updates.