Bug 56825

Summary:	portage mishandling rsync package argument
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Richmond <mrichmon>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Michael Richmond 2004-07-12 13:28:54 UTC

Using portage to do a "pretend" update of rsync fails with a message that "sync actions do not support "--pretend". This is using portage 2.0.50-r9. I have just upgraded portage so I am not sure if this behavior is new with this version of portage.

It appears that the argument parsing for 'emerge' is recognising the "sync" in "rsync" and is mistaking this for an "emerge sync" operation. This happens no matter where "rsync" exists in the list of packages.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run 'emerge -pv rsync' without the quotes
2. or, run 'emerge -pv vim rsync gzip' without the quotes
Actual Results:  
The results of running emerge are:

bash-2.05b# emerge -V
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-
r1)
bash-2.05b# emerge -pv rsync
emerge: "sync" actions do not support "--pretend."

This error is given no matter how many packages are listed nor where rsync is 
in the package list.

Expected Results:  
Emerge should have listed out the package dependencies for rsync.

Comment 1 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2004-07-12 13:39:27 UTC

From man emerge:

       emerge sync | rsync

emerge is supposed to recognize both as an action to synchronize the portage tree.
If you want to emerge the rsync package, please use net-misc/rsync as the argument.
That portage allows you to just specify the package name to emerge a package is
handy, but it also breaks if there is more than one packages with the name.
category/package is the only true way of specifying packages.