not sure if this happens for every instance so far, i think its only if multiple packages are installed that have the same name but are in different categories. examples below are the best explanation :) as you can see, gcc exists in a few different categories due to crossdev, and with more than 1 category instance installed, it craps out. whereas with php, only an instance from dev-lang is installed and its fine. nsys-home1-gt / # eix ^gcc$ * cross-arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc [1] Available versions: 2.95.3-r9 3.1.1-r2 3.2.2 3.2.3-r4 3.3.2-r7 3.3.5-r1 3.3.5.20050130-r1 3.3.6 3.3.6-r1 3.4.1-r3 3.4.4-r1 3.4.5 3.4.5-r1 3.4.6 3.4.6-r1 4.0.2-r3 4.0.3 [M]4.1.0-r1 [M]4.1.1_pre20060517 [M]4.2.0_alpha20060513 Installed: 4.1.0 Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ Description: Modern C/C++ compiler written by the GNU people * cross-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc [1] Available versions: 2.95.3-r9 3.1.1-r2 *3.2.2 3.2.3-r4 3.3.2-r7 3.3.5-r1 3.3.5.20050130-r1 3.3.6 3.3.6-r1 3.4.1-r3 3.4.4-r1 3.4.5 3.4.5-r1 3.4.6 3.4.6-r1 *4.0.2-r3 *4.0.3 4.1.0-r1 4.1.1_pre20060517 [M]4.2.0_alpha20060513 Installed: 4.1.0 Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ Description: Modern C/C++ compiler written by the GNU people * sys-devel/gcc Available versions: [P]2.95.3-r9 [P]3.1.1-r2 [P]3.2.2 [P]3.2.3-r4 [P]3.3.2-r7 3.3.5-r1 3.3.5.20050130-r1 3.3.6 3.3.6-r1 3.4.1-r3 3.4.4-r1 3.4.5 3.4.5-r1 3.4.6 3.4.6-r1 4.0.2-r3 4.0.3 4.1.0-r1 4.1.1_pre20060517 [M]4.2.0_alpha20060513 Installed: 4.0.3 4.1.0-r1 Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ Description: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C/C++, java compilers, pie+ssp extensions, Haj Ten Brugge runtime bounds checking [1] /usr/local/portage ------------------------ nsys-home1-gt / # quickpkg =gcc-4.1.0-r1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 285, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 280, in main function(sys.argv[2:]) File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 138, in match print string.join(portage.db[argv[0]]["vartree"].dbapi.match(argv[1]),"\n") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4460, in match mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3349, in dep_expand return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3538, in cpv_expand raise ValueError, matches ValueError: ['cross-arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc', 'sys-devel/gcc', 'cross-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc'] * Could not find anything to match '=gcc-4.1.0-r1'; skipping * No packages found --------------------- nsys-home1-gt / # eix ^php$ * dev-lang/php Available versions: 4.3.11-r5 4.4.2 4.4.2-r2 5.0.5-r5 5.1.2 5.1.4 Installed: 5.1.4 Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description: The PHP language runtime engine. * dev-php/php Available versions: [M]4.3.11 [M]4.3.11-r1 [M]4.3.11-r3 [M]4.3.11-r4 [M]4.4.0 [M]4.4.0-r1 [M]4.4.0-r3 [M]4.4.0-r4 Installed: none Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description: PHP Shell Interpreter Found 2 matches nsys-home1-gt / # quickpkg php * Building package for php-5.1.4 ... [ ok ] * Packages now in /usr/portage/packages: * php-5.1.4: 13M -------------------------------- Portage 2.1_rc1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.15-ck3-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-ck3-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mirror.isp.net.au/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.cc.swin.edu.au/gentoo-portage" USE="alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar cli crypt ctype cups curl dba debug dhcp divx4linux dri dv dvb dvd dvdread eds eix emboss encode esd exif extraengine fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hash iconv imap imlib innodb isdnlog jabber jpeg kerberos ldap libclamav libg++ libwww logrotate mad maildir mcal mhash mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic pie png posix postfix postgres pppd python quicktime radius readline reflection samba sasl sdl session simplexml snmp soap sockets spamassassin spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l vhosts vorbis wddx x86 xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xorg xv xvid zaptel zlib dvb_cards_usb-vp7045 elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
just to reiterate, if you specify the full package name with category prefix, quickpkg works fine... nsys-home1-gt / # quickpkg =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.0-r1 * Building package for gcc-4.1.0-r1 ... [ ok ] * Packages now in /usr/portage/packages: * gcc-4.1.0-r1: 17M the expected behaviour in the traceback in the first post is something similar to: nsys-home1-gt / # emerge -pv php These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! The short ebuild name "php" is ambiguous. Please specify !!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead: dev-lang/php dev-php/php
I've fixed in in svn r3376 so that portageq prints a nice error message to stderr. No changes to quickpkg are necessary because it doesn't get anything from portageq on stdout in this case and it simply assumes there is no match.
This has been release in 2.1_rc1-r4.
