Bug 451396

Summary:	app-portage/flaggie-0.2-r3 - Should not remove category/* if there are still packages installed from that category.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Massimo Burcheri <burcheri.massimo+bugs-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	tomwij
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Massimo Burcheri 2013-01-11 13:35:08 UTC

I had
xfce-base/*
in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/xall
and this was removed by flaggie --destructive-cleanup eventhough there are still some (not all) packages of that category installed and after the cleanup forced to downgrade.
Any cleanup not matter how destructive should leave the wildcards category/* at least if there is at least one package of the category still installed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2013-01-11 19:31:06 UTC

Hmm, I guess I didn't think of wildcards when implementing the cleanup. I'm currently quite busy but I will try to fix this in reasonable time.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2013-01-12 12:21:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmm, I guess I didn't think of wildcards when implementing the cleanup. I'm
> currently quite busy but I will try to fix this in reasonable time.

Yes, the cleanup methods use .xmatch() method which doesn't support wildcards.

I've tried to construct an Atom() with wildcards enabled but that doesn't help either.

In [16]: a=portage.dep.Atom('dev-python/*', allow_wildcard=True)

In [17]: db.xmatch('match-all', a)
Out[17]: []