Bug 444596

Summary:	emerge --info [non-existent-atom] should fail
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446358
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	445274

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-24 17:39:14 UTC

emerge --info [this-is-not-a-valid-atom] currently outputs as if the invalid atom has not been included. Since this leads incomplete output, bug wrangling then requires extra steps on both parts to get the required information (viz. the equivalent of `emerge -vpq [atom]'). It should instead recognise that the atom is invalid and output an error and nothing else.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-11-24 21:15:35 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=437c0f1987fa770bd2edf31f1a5a1812391e37fd

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-11-24 22:09:32 UTC

Now enhanced with search for similar names:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=372d0e0dced3f94ba619e722e8a87f0256d52aea

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-11-29 23:54:41 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.32 and 2.2.0_alpha143.