Bug 358729

Summary:	app-portage/eix-0.22.8: eix -P misses some packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Third-Party Tools	Assignee:	Martin Väth <martin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	darkside
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-03-13 17:57:15 UTC

eix -P misses packages when the virtual is specified with the category:

   $ eix --only-names -P virtual/mda
   mail-filter/maildrop
   mail-filter/procmail

Whereas without the category, the list seems to be complete:

   $ eix --only-names -P mda
   mail-filter/maildrop
   mail-filter/procmail
   mail-mta/courier
   mail-mta/mini-qmail
   mail-mta/netqmail
   mail-mta/postfix
   mail-mta/qmail-ldap

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2011-03-14 18:33:29 UTC

The reason is that virtual/mda (because there is / inside)
looks for the beginning of a string and not for a substring (like without /).

The "true" bug is that eix considers PROVIDE as a single string and not
as a vector of strings which is perhaps more reasonable.

I added a corresponding patch to the eix svn trunk (>=eix-0.22.9).

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2011-07-05 14:33:59 UTC

app-portage/eix-0.22.9 is in the tree