Bug 5524

Summary:	Portage wants to remove injected packages when using the clean option
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Cédric Paquot <cedric.paquot>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	cedric.paquot
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cédric Paquot 2002-07-24 17:27:42 UTC

I have this version of rpm installed: app-arch/rpm-4.0.4-r2.  
Today I saw that a new revision was out (r3). As I don't need rpm (it's a  
dependency of kdeadmin) I injected app-arch/rpm-4.0.4-r3 to avoid this  
compilation.  
Now if I do an "emerge -p clean", portage wants to remove the -r3 version.  
  
I think that injected packages should not be cleaned if they are the newest  
version (and not the real one of course). So in my example, both version of  
rpm should be protected. 
 
I'm using portage 2.0.13.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-26 14:16:18 UTC

OK, with Portage 2.0.19, injected packages will have a COUNTER file (so they
will not be unmerged by clean) but they don't have a SLOT so they will always
"stick" until they are manually unmerged.

Having them eventually auto-removed would require the user to specify a "slot"
when calling "emerge cat/pkg-v" which would be cumbersome.