Bug 4907 – emerge -k ignores dependencies

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description george 2002-07-12 03:48:47 UTC]

Using portage 2.0.13 which fixes the other probs I was having.  Thanks for the
quick work.

I use emerge -b on a master machine and then export /usr/portage.  On slave
machines I use emerge -k.  This keeps all my boxes consistent and saves lots of
compiling time.  I have checked this bug also shows just on the master machine
so it's nothing to do with the remote filesystem.

# emerge -p xine-ui

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N   ] media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.12 to /
[ebuild  N   ] media-video/xine-ui-0.9.12 to /

# emerge -k xine-ui

only installs xine-ui. [Afterthought] -pk and -pok are consistent with this.

# emerge -b xine-ui

installs both xine-lib and xine-ui

# emerge xine-ui

builds and installs both xine-lib and xine-ui

-k used to work but I didn't note the version of portage I had before 2.0.11
when I first saw this.

Is the -b action correct?  I expected it to build as well as install.

TIA,
George.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-07-13 00:41:05 UTC]

dup of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4508

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-07-29 23:41:54 UTC]

These issues should all be addressed in Portage 2.0.22... try it when released
and see.  If you still have problems, file a new bug report with more detailed
info and I"ll look into it.