128503 – portage does not respect dependencies of already installed packages

Bug 128503 - portage does not respect dependencies of already installed packages

Summary: portage does not respect dependencies of already installed packages

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48195

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Dependencies (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2006-04-02 04:53 UTC by W-Mark Kubacki
Modified:	2006-04-02 05:22 UTC (History)
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Description W-Mark Kubacki 2006-04-02 04:53:01 UTC

As prerequisity, install any package which has as runtime dependecy something like "<net-www/apache-2.1.0" along with, let's say, "net-www/apache-2.0.55-r2".

Now comes the point:
If you unmasked "net-www/apache-2.2.0" and ran "emerge world", apache will be upgraded to 2.2.0. Portage does not respect that an entry in the world-file, the one with "<net-www/apache.2.1.0", does not work with the newer version!

The expected behaviour is, that portage either warns (!) "XY is blocking apache-2.2.0!" or that simply apache is left untouched/not upgraded.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-02 05:09:33 UTC

Known(In reply to comment #0)
> The expected behaviour is, that portage either warns (!) "XY is blocking
> apache-2.2.0!" or that simply apache is left untouched/not upgraded.

You'll get a downgrade next time you run emerge -uD world, and upgrade next time... and so on. Known issue for a long time, deps like <net-www/apache-2.1.0 don't work. You need to use package.mask or !>net-www/apache-2.1* in the ebuild.

Cannot find the duplicate right now.

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-02 05:22:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48195 ***