Bug 96909 – net-wireless/wireless-tools keeps changing versions between 28_pre8 and 28_pre6

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Andrew D. Keyser (aka Legoguy) 2005-06-23 17:26:06 UTC]

Every time I go to emerge -uDav world, net-wireless wants to either downgrade to
28_pre6 or upgrade to 28_pre8. Keeps going in a circle like that every time I
try to emerge -u world.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge wireless-tools
2. emerge -uDav world
3. emerge -uDav world
4. ..

Actual Results:  
A. after step #1, wireless-tools-28_pre8 should be installed.
B. step #2 causes it to dowgrate to 28_pre6.
C. step #3 upgrdes it again to 28_pre8.

Expected Results:  
Make up your mind, please...

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.11-nitro2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-nitro2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /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 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo ccache cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia
cdr cpudetection crypt cscope ctype cups curl dba dga divx4linux dvd dvdr eds
emboss encode faad fam ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gb
gd gdbm gif gimp gimp-print gimpprint glx gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv icq imagemagick imlib inifile jabber java javascript
joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal ladcca libg++ libwww lirc live lzw-tiff
mad mbox mhash mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mozdevelop mozilla moznomail
mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses network nls nntp nptl nptlonly nvidia objc
offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl php png posix ppds
pthreads python qt quicktime readline real rtc rtsp samba sdl session sharedmem
silc sndfile sockets socks5 spell sse sse2 ssl svg tabs tcltk tcpd tga theora
tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb
userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 visualization vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows
xft xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid yahoo
zeroconf zlib zsh userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-24 00:02:05 UTC]

Please provide the output of `equery depends wireless-tools` and `grep -R
wireless-tools /etc/portage/*`

[Comment 2 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-25 00:53:04 UTC]

Do you have kde-base/kdenetwork installed by any chance? If yes, which version?

[Comment 3 Andrew D. Keyser (aka Legoguy) 2005-06-25 18:21:45 UTC]

# equery depends wireless-tools
[ Searching for packages depending on wireless-tools... ]
kde-base/kwifimanager-3.4.1
net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1-r1


# grep -R wireless-tools /etc/portage/*
(doesn't output anything)

Yes, kdenetwork-meta is installed - version 3.4.1. Probably is the 'parent' of
kdewifimanager.

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-26 01:07:03 UTC]

This is the result of bug #94719 - marking as duplicate although it's not really
a duplicate, only a side-effect.

[Comment 5 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-26 01:09:59 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94719 ***

[Comment 6 Andrew D. Keyser (aka Legoguy) 2005-06-26 11:23:57 UTC]

If it's a side effect then this should be marked as a dependency of that bug,
not a duplicate of it.

That's what the "depends on" field is for ;)