Bug 161003 – package.provided needs to catch virtual/ usage

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Robin Johnson 2007-01-08 21:23:08 UTC]

See my patch.

Date: Mon Jan  8 11:44:45 PST 2007
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <[e-mail]>

- Document the fact that using virtual/* in package.provided does NOT work.
  They should be in the 'virtuals' file instead.

- Add a check to portage.py for virtual/ entries in package.provided.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2007-01-08 21:23:40 UTC]

Created attachment 106111 [details, diff]
portage-2.1.2-manpage-package-provided-vs-virtuals-note.patch

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2007-01-09 20:35:12 UTC]

Thanks.  This is fixed in svn r5502.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2007-01-11 04:16:13 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2_rc4-r8.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2014-12-07 00:10:26 UTC]

We've had a patch submitted to allow virtuals in package.provided:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/4901

Is there any reason not to allow this?

For the record, the current behavior was introduced in this commit:

https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/7bd12272120465a6ccc80a2281b6333f7d3a5425

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2014-12-08 09:43:38 UTC]

Are there are old-style virtuals left? They are what used to break in package.provided.

[Comment 6 Michał Górny 2014-12-08 11:08:39 UTC]

I think we banned them a long time ago. I guess we may remove their support from Portage as well.

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2014-12-10 16:42:41 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #6)
> I think we banned them a long time ago.

Yes, Gentoo migrated to new-style virtuals years ago.

> I guess we may remove their support from Portage as well.

Yes, that would be nice. I recall that chromium-os was still using old-style virtuals for some time after Gentoo stopped, but hopefully they've migrated entirely to new-style virtuals by now. I see that they've got some new-style virtuals here:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/master/virtual/