Bug 37224

Summary:	"emerge -p rsync" replies with: "emerge: the "sync" action does not support "--pretend.""
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Everette <tolasliam>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	sgtphou
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Everette 2004-01-04 13:00:14 UTC

"emerge -p rsync" replies with: "emerge: the "sync" action does not support "--pretend.""

...portage is apparently not using strict pattern matching when looking for the "sync" option, in order to give the diagnostic message above.

Additionally, "emerge rsync" just results in an "emerge sync" being run.

I'm using portage-2.0.49-r20

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. "emerge -p rsync"
2. "emerge rsync"
3. (both fail to do anything recognize the option as "rsynch" rather than "sync"

Actual Results:  
an "emerge sync" was run

Expected Results:  
Upgraded the "rsync" package.

Comment 1 FieldySnuts 2004-01-04 13:02:43 UTC

rsync happens to do the same thing as sync, so you must call it in full, like so:

emerge -p net-misc/rsync-2.6.0

Comment 2 FieldySnuts 2004-01-04 13:03:23 UTC

Sorry, emerge -p net-misc/rsync .

The former will work, but get you specifically version 2.6.0 .

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-04 13:27:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2365 ***