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Bug 761463

Summary: net-wireless/gr-osmosdr-0.2.0 infinite rebuild
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: John (EBo) David <ebo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Radio project <radio>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal CC: jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: emerge --info as required

Description John (EBo) David 2020-12-24 03:00:56 UTC
Created attachment 679368 [details]
emerge --info as required

After running emerge --sync, and then '-uDNp', it told me:

  [ebuild  rR   ~] net-wireless/gr-osmosdr-0.2.0

After successfully rebuilding it, portage tells me it needs to be rebuilt again.  I've retried it a couple of times.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?  At the moment it is not a problem, but it would be nice to fix.
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2020-12-24 14:15:54 UTC
we need to collect some more information. Is only net-wireless/gr-osmosdr-0.2.0 rebuilt, or are there other packages too?

We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. 

I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3].
I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4].
Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product.

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/
[2] https://forums.gentoo.org/
[3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html
[4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/
Comment 2 John (EBo) David 2020-12-24 18:39:40 UTC
Yes.  It is only gr-osmosdr at the moment.  I have had this happen before many years ago, and will say that I see this type of error maybe a couple of times a decade (I've been a Gentoo user since 2001).  My experience is that it normally happens during major portage tree changes, and often resolve itself after a couple of months.  

Since this type of bug is so intermittent and difficult to track down, I understand if you wish to close it.  I was just bring it to people's attention.

If "this is only happening to me", then I will flush and regen the portage/repo trees, as well as look at my package accept keywords -- to see if I have some weird dependencies.
Comment 3 Thomas Beierlein gentoo-dev 2022-08-31 08:21:17 UTC
Ping.

In meantime the old gr-osmosdr-0.2.0 version is gone. 

Actual versions are gr-osmosdr-0.2.3 and 0.2.3_p20210128-r1. Do you still observe the above problem? Otherwise we will close the bug in next days.
Comment 4 John (EBo) David 2022-08-31 09:50:51 UTC
My last gentoo machine died a couple of months ago (after running continually for 8 years), and I have at least temporarily moved to Pop_OS (on a System76 machine).  I might end up dual booting it to Gentoo, but for now I have no way to test this.

I will go ahead and mark this as resolved/obsolete, and revisit if/when I get an appropriate machine running gentoo again.  

BTW, I started running Gentoo in December of 2001.  I am missing it, but setting up a new machine has always been such a pain (particualry multi-user sound), that I figured I would give a vender supported hardware/Linux-distro a try (hense System76's Pop_OS).  To bad no venders ever picked up Gentoo...