Bug 654670

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: add emerge option to assert that any package pulled into the graph has an ebuild available
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, kingjon3377, pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651018 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760783
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	155723

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2018-05-02 22:22:29 UTC

Depending on emerge --update and --deep=n options, dependency calculations may choose installed packages for which there is no longer an ebuild available. It could be useful to have an option to trigger an update of an installed package if the ebuild is no longer available for the installed version.