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Bug 60225

Summary: portage-2.0.51_pre17 : /etc/portage/package.provided
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jason Waldhelm <jason>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal Keywords: InVCS
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 66938    

Description Jason Waldhelm 2004-08-13 07:15:36 UTC
when running 'emerge inject cat/pkg-ver' it warns me that the inject option is depreciated and to use /etc/portage/package.provided in its place.  i thought i would give it a go, and put the remaining packages i wished to inject into /etc/portage/package.provided as follows:

kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r1
kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3-r1
kde-base/kdenetwork-3.2.3-r1

this didn't seem to work ('emerge -uDpv world' still showed the "injected" packages); so i tried adding comparison operators like so:

=kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.0_beta2

this didn't work either.

the changelog offers this:
Deprecated --inject and added support for package.provided in both the profiles and /etc/portage/profile directory.

so perhaps the warning that states package.provided should be in /etc/portage/ should read /etc/portage/profile/package.provided ?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.51_pre17 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4,
glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.7-hardened-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R)4 Mobile CPU
2.00GHz)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-hardened-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync6.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib aavm alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd
exiscan-acl fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2imlib java jpeg kde kerberos
ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell
sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-15 15:28:52 UTC
Changed.
Comment 2 Jason Waldhelm 2004-08-16 14:31:51 UTC
thanks for clearing this up