Bug 393

Summary:	portage handles 'emerge --world update' incorrectly; pkg_* functions do not work properly
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	azarah, g2boojum
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	278, 282, 337

Description Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-28 13:24:31 UTC

1)  emerge --world update, do not check if the virtual/foo dependancy is
satisfied, before adding the default package for that virtual to the update list.

Example: I have net-mail/postfix installed, which provide virtual/mta, but
  emerge --world update still wants to install net-mail/ssmtp.

2)  lets say i want to merge gnome-extra/gnome-db, but do not have
gnome-extra/libgda .. libgda will be merged as well.  Now, both have 
pkg_postinst() functions, but only gnome-db's get run when they are merged in
one shot (libgda was not merged, so got pulled in by gnome-db).

Comment 1 Geert Bevin 2002-01-30 08:18:57 UTC

*** Bug 416 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-20 00:08:50 UTC

For 1), we will be tweaking "world" support significantly which will fix this. 
For 2), both pkg_postinst()s really *should* run.  If both actually get
physically  merged, pkg_postinsts get run.  It's in the same code path.