Bug 601276 – sys-apps/portage-2.3.0: Misleading autounmask output

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Patrick Lauer 2016-11-30 11:34:15 UTC]

emerge -auNDv @world

[...]

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31::gentoo
# required by dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.8::gentoo[gtk]
# required by virtual/jdk-1.7.0-r2::gentoo
# required by dev-java/ant-core-1.9.2::gentoo
# required by dev-java/slf4j-api-1.7.7::gentoo
# required by net-analyzer/zabbix-3.2.1-r2::gentoo[java]
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
>=x11-libs/cairo-1.14.6 X
# required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31::gentoo
# required by dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.8::gentoo[gtk]
# required by virtual/jdk-1.7.0-r2::gentoo
# required by dev-java/ant-core-1.9.2::gentoo
# required by dev-java/slf4j-api-1.7.7::gentoo
# required by net-analyzer/zabbix-3.2.1-r2::gentoo[java]
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
>=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.34.0 X

NOTE: The --autounmask-keep-masks option will prevent emerge
      from creating package.unmask or ** keyword changes.

The following problems occurred while writing autounmask changes:
!!! No file to write for '/etc/portage/package.unmask'

But it's not supposed to use autounmask, so writing to /etc/portage should not happen - thus any absent files are not a problem. what ur doin, portage! ;)

Related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598116


Portage 2.3.0 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.0.5-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.0.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E3-1230_V2_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16419000 total,   5308332 free
KiB Swap:   19529720 total,  19529720 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:15:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.21.3::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.22-r4::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

adjust
    location: /var/lib/layman/adjust
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm git iconv iproute2 ipv6 mmx mmxext modules ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre perl python readline seccomp session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode vim-syntax xattr zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Ben Kohler 2018-07-17 20:12:27 UTC]

What is the bug here? Autounmask is on and it's suggesting changes-- the "no file to write" bug seems fixed.