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Bug 66938

Summary: package.provided does not work for me on _some_ packages
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Dietrich Heise <dietrich>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal CC: de.techno
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 60225    
Bug Blocks:    
Attachments: emerge -uDdp world

Description Dietrich Heise 2004-10-09 20:42:44 UTC
Hi,

package.provided doesn't work wor me for _some_ packages
e.g. I have this in package.provided

gnome-extra/gconf-editor-2.8.0
sys-apps/usbutils-0.11-r5
sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r3

and 'emerge -up --deep world' shows me

[ebuild     U ] gnome-extra/gconf-editor-2.8.0 [2.6.2]

version of portage is 2.0.51_rc7

mfg
Dietrich

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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didi ~ #  emerge info
Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8,sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://intern/olddistfiles/ http://intern/distfiles/
ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/"
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aalib alsa apache2 apm avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups
curl dba dga directfb doc dvd dvdr emacs encode esd f77 fbcon flash foomaticdb
freetds gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif gmp gnome gpg gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
guile imap imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de linguas_nds lirc mad
matroska mcal memlimit mikmod mozilla mpeg mysql ncures ncurses network nls ogg
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba
sdl slang slp snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype vorbis x86
xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-09 21:20:42 UTC
Please attach the output of emerge -uDdp world

By the way, you should be using package.mask if you want to prevent portage from upgrading a package. Using package.provided to tell portage that a package that is installed that isn't will only lead to compile failures and false bug reports.
Comment 2 Dietrich Heise 2004-10-10 04:41:50 UTC
sorry, now I have injected the package now :/

Can I also create a package.mask file in /etc/portage/profile/ that will also used like /usr/portage/profile/package.mask?

but the package.mask in /usr/portage is not a good way for masking packages after every sync the user masked packages are gone :(

mfg
Dietrich
Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-10 04:55:11 UTC
/etc/portage/package.mask for masking packages. man 5 portage will show you information for many other files too.

Unfortunately, there's no way to debug this without the debug output so I'm closing.
Comment 4 Prakash Punnoor 2005-04-09 01:54:06 UTC
I have the same problem:

cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
media-libs/libcaca-0.9-r1
app-shells/tcsh-6.13-r1
media-libs/libao-0.8.6
x11-libs/wxGTK-2.5.3
kde-base/kdeaddons-docs-konq-plugins-3.4.0
sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.11.4
app-text/tetex-3.0-r1
x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3
media-libs/xvid-1.0.3
app-office/openoffice-ximian-1.3.9

emerge -uDp world
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050404 [2.3.4.20050125-r1]
[ebuild     U ] app-text/tetex-3.0-r2 [2.0.2-r6]
[ebuild     U ] app-office/openoffice-ximian-1.3.9 [1.3.8]
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3.20050110-r2 [3.4.3.20050110]

output of -uDdp will be attached
Comment 5 Prakash Punnoor 2005-04-09 01:55:02 UTC
Created attachment 55742 [details]
emerge -uDdp world
Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-11 11:01:15 UTC
Closing due to old age
Comment 7 dE 2011-03-04 13:04:28 UTC
I too have this problem.

emerge -pv virtualbox

Calculating dependencies              ... done!  
[ebuild  N     ] sys-devel/bin86-0.16.17  149 kB
[ebuild  N    ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.2  37,084 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/gperf-3.0.4  961 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-devel/dev86-0.16.17-r6  687 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-power/iasl-20090123  USE="-test" 906 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5  USE="symlink -build -deblob" 68,751 kB
[ebuild  N    ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.2  831 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/help2man-1.38.2  USE="-nls" 134 kB
[ebuild  NS    ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r3 [1.11.1] 748 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-lang/yasm-1.1.0-r1  USE="-nls -python" 1,377 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/kbuild-0.1.5-r1  21,430 kB
[ebuild  N    ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.2  USE="additions alsa opengl qt4 -doc -extensions -headless -java -pulseaudio -python -sdk -vboxwebsrv" 68,230 kB

Total: 12 packages (11 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 201,283 kB

cat package.provided 
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5
Comment 8 dE 2011-03-04 13:04:50 UTC
Any chance of reopening?
Comment 9 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2011-03-04 15:41:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> cat package.provided 
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5

Is that /etc/portage/profile/package.provided? I'm asking because it's common for people to put the file in the wrong directory.
Comment 10 dE 2011-03-06 04:12:26 UTC
Yes, that was it, however the man page states it should be in /etc/portage/make.profile/
Comment 11 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2011-03-06 04:21:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> Yes, that was it, however the man page states it should be in
> /etc/portage/make.profile/

That's for the main profile. I also says that site-specific overrides go in /etc/portage/profile/. It's supposed to be clarified in the /etc/make.profile/ docs, but maybe it's not clear enough.
Comment 12 dE 2011-03-06 04:28:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > Yes, that was it, however the man page states it should be in
> > /etc/portage/make.profile/
> 
> That's for the main profile. I also says that site-specific overrides go in
> /etc/portage/profile/. It's supposed to be clarified in the /etc/make.profile/
> docs, but maybe it's not clear enough.
> 

Yup, that's right. I think the man page needs a bit of patching.