Bug 73137 – When running emerge --update world, it wants to install 6 versions of automake....

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Nico Blanke 2004-12-02 07:42:01 UTC]

I just made a emerge sync, and wanted to run emerge --update world, but then the following message appers :

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 [5.8.5-r1]
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6 [5.8.5-r1]
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-1
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 [2.59-r5]
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1]
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
see above
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
Only one Version of automake should be installed.....

[Comment 1 Nico Blanke 2004-12-02 07:42:54 UTC]

Output of emerge info

Portage 2.0.51-r7 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 27 2004, 15:26:52)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r5
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.22
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi bitmap-fonts cdr cdrom crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"

[Comment 2 Nico Blanke 2004-12-02 08:05:21 UTC]

Ok I was too fast. "It's not a Bug, it's a feature" .....