Bug 523768

Summary:	sys-apps/portage should depend on app-shells/bash:SLOT
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	479574
Bug Blocks:

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-26 09:18:51 UTC

Since bug #479574 was resolved, older app-shells/bash are installed in distinct SLOTs. The resulting /bin/bash-${SLOT} executables that these older ebuilds install should not affect sys-apps/portage, and yet the portage ebuilds maintain a complex set of version based (instead of SLOT based) dependencies and pointless blockers to ensure a sane /bin/bash is available. After installing an older app-shells/bash SLOT, sys-apps/portage no longer resolves its dependencies until the older SLOTs are removed again.

Comment 1 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-26 21:04:26 UTC

OK, I made it "app-shells/bash:0[readline]"

I've bumped 2.2.8-r1 to r2 and changed 9999 and 2.2.14_rc1.  2.2.12 will likely be removed soon with a 2.2.14 final release.