| Summary: | etcat does not show USE flags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Alex V. Koval <alex> |
| Component: | Tools | Assignee: | Portage Tools Team <tools-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | greg_g |
| Priority: | High | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | patch for etcat | ||
equery and etcat have some strange behaviour when you have an ~x86 package
installed without ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".
For instance I have:
# etcat -v net-p2p/mldonkey
* net-p2p/mldonkey :
[ ] 2.5.4 (0)
[M~ ] 2.5.11 (0)
[M~ ] 2.5.12 (0)
[M~I] 2.5.16 (0)
[M~ ] 2.5.16-r1 (0)
[M~ ] 2.5.16-r2 (0)
# etcat -u net-p2p/mldonkey
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ]
[ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ]
# equery uses net-p2p/mldonkey
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ]
[ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ]
U I [ Found these USE variables in : net-p2p/mldonkey-2.5.4 ]
+ + gtk : Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
(Note that the version reported by equery is not correct)
Maybe you met something similar? What version of samba do you have installed?
> Maybe you met something similar? What version of samba do you have installed?
this could be reproduces with any package. there were no "~x86" packages on this system this morning when I reported the problem. It was fresh system
with no world packages installed, I tried to install Samba and did not found
any flags for it.
More examples:
mail3 root # etcat -u net-p2p/mldonkey
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ]
[ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ]
mail3 root # equery uses net-p2p/mldonkey
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ]
[ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ]
U I [ Found these USE variables in : net-p2p/mldonkey-2.5.4 ]
- - gtk : Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
May be I am doing something wrong, then sorry. I am concerned that same portage + same gentoolkit + same package gives different results in different systems. And most important thing that on freshly (yesterday) installed gentoo etcat -u did not shown any USE flags to me with -u option.
Ok, so if I get it correctly, the problem is that etcat shows the useflags of a package only if it is already installed, while equery shows the useflags of the latest available version of a package, being it installed or not. I don't know whether it's a bug or a feature, and whether the behaviour of etcat should be the same of equery, probably yes... Hi
> Ok, so if I get it correctly, the problem is that etcat shows the useflags
> of a package only if it is already installed, while equery shows the useflags
> of the latest available version of a package, being it installed or not.
yes, it seems you right. I have installed samba, and after installed, etcat started to show flags for samba.
from man page of etcat:
-u <package[-version]>
uses <package[-version]>
Outputs the USE flags supported by this package and also their
installed state and description.
so it seems that etacat should show USE flags for package not depending is it installed or not.
Created attachment 29218 [details, diff]
patch for etcat
I looked at the code, and it was extremely easy to make a patch,
I just synced a snippet of code with equery.
Applies to gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8
Hi Gregorio, I tested the patch, works good on my system, thanks. Alex this tool is deprecated |
I have 2 servers, which are emerge synced, and both servers have the same versions of portage and gentoolkit installed. At one of servers etcat -u does not show any flags. for same package equery uses package displays use flags. * sys-apps/portage Latest version installed: 2.0.50-r5 * app-portage/gentoolkit Latest version installed: 0.2.0_pre8 Same versions of portage & gentoolkit on another server does not reproduce this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mail3 qmail # etcat -u samba [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ] [ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ] 2. mail3 qmail # equery uses samba [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ] [ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ] U I [ Found these USE variables in : net-fs/samba-2.2.8a ] + + pam : Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - - acl : Adds support for Access Control Lists + + cups : Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) - - ldap : Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) + + ssl : Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections + + tcpd : Adds support for TCP wrappers - - oav : Adds support for anti-virus from the openantivirus.org project Expected Results: the same use flags should be printed in both cases of using 'etcat' and 'equery'