Bug 547426

Summary:	app-portage/portage-utils: `qlist -I` lists SLOT-ed packages multiple times
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage Utils Team <portage-utils>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2015-04-22 17:56:07 UTC

eg.:
# qlist -IC hamcrest-*  
dev-java/hamcrest-core
dev-java/hamcrest-core
dev-java/hamcrest-generator
dev-java/hamcrest-library


prolly due to the 2 slotted version: 2.6.1 [1.2.0]
but it looks badly IMO.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-04-22 18:39:48 UTC

yes, it's due to different SLOTs.  it's always been this way and is accurate of the vdb.  i'm not sure i want to change this behavior.  you can kind of argue for both sides, but it's pretty easy to `uniq` it out ...

Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2015-04-23 13:39:48 UTC

ah - understood, so it is known (and wanted)
-> not a bug.

(completely OT, but what does "vdb" means ?)

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-04-23 18:13:41 UTC

(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #2)

it's a common (in the Gentoo world) short name for /var/db/pkg/.  it's where the PM (at least portage) stores all info about installed packages.