Bug 573070

Summary:	emerge error message w/missing binary packages is misleading
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573194
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	573774

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-01-27 03:52:20 UTC

this looks fine:
$ emerge -pq --nodeps laskdjfasdf
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "laskdjfasdf".

and this is fine:
$ emerge -pq --nodeps nano
[ebuild   R   ] app-editors/nano-2.5.0  USE="magic ncurses nls spell unicode -debug -justify -minimal -slang -static" 

but this is misleading:
$ emerge -pq --nodeps nano -K
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "nano".

it should say "binary packages" instead of "ebuilds", and probably make a better suggestion

Comment 1 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-01-27 07:53:40 UTC

I can look into changing the message when usepkgonly is active. But what do you mean by "make a better suggestion"?

Comment 2 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-01-27 08:58:37 UTC

Patch posted for review here: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/17a4ec233f16a520e30c8cef65c1b640

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-01-27 16:03:03 UTC

(In reply to Alexander Berntsen from comment #1)

if the info is readily available, it could mention whether there's an ebuild available (to build from source) or it's a completely unknown package

Comment 4 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-01-28 11:54:38 UTC

(In reply to SpanKY from comment #3)
> (In reply to Alexander Berntsen from comment #1)
> 
> if the info is readily available, it could mention whether there's an ebuild
> available (to build from source) or it's a completely unknown package

I'll add a different bug for that.

Comment 5 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-01-28 11:56:06 UTC

Patch is now in git: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=9c9165fb9420a285e8e2c62cb9ba8eb91120cb66

(I keep forgetting that hitting return when selecting a keyword makes bugzilla send the entire form...)

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-03-14 03:44:13 UTC

Fixed in 2.2.28.

Commit hash changed:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=8c9b1d6a7c115344cdc5bd8e7d122ab721aeb53a