Bug 355231

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: emerge --info should show sys-apps/coreutils version
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-02-16 18:32:36 UTC

As I can see from bug #355141, would be interesting to know coreutils version in emerge --info as it provides important things like "install". Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2011-02-16 18:38:09 UTC

Those packages are defined here: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/info_pkgs?view=log

Not really a sys-apps/portage bug.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-02-17 05:12:58 UTC

I guess the reason it's never been added is that the behavior is supposed to be constant regardless of version, and any deviation from that must be a rare and short-lived regression.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-02-17 05:56:00 UTC

in general that's a fine position, but in this specific the behavior can crop up from time to time.  however, i'm not sure including the coreutils output would have made any difference at all to the bug development.

a simple search of bugzilla for "install: will not overwrite just-created" would however have thrown many matches that'd of narrowed down the issue.

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-02-17 08:07:29 UTC

Well, in that case, looking at bug 319443  that points to coreutils-8.4 and automake-1.11 introducing this behavior, looks surprising to me that I was unable to reproduce bug #355141 with their respective 8.7 and 1.11.1  :-/