Today I realized, when I used eix to look up app-emulation/vmware-modules, that I did not have the latest version of that package installed (which is from the vmware overlay, btw). So I thought I'd run a new world update and emerge --sync'ed. After that, I ran "emerge -uDNav world" - which to my surprise told me that there's nothing to update. My first guess was that it might not be in my world file, so I checked - and it was there. When I tried to run "emerge -uav world", vmware-modules actually showed up to be updated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -uDNav world: Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB 2. emerge -uav world: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 [1.0.0.15-r1] 31,607 kB [1] Expected Results: When I run "emerge -uDNav world", I expect that I have no less packages to be upgraded than when I'd run "emerge -uav world". complete output of "emerge -uDNav world": ----------------------------------------- timo ~ # emerge -uDNav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] n Quitting. complete output of "emerge -uav world": --------------------------------------- timo ~ # emerge -uav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 [1.0.0.15-r1] 31,607 kB [1] Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 31,607 kB Portage overlays: [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware [2] /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n Quitting. /var/lib/portage/world: ----------------------- media-fonts/artwiz-fonts net-misc/openvpn x11-themes/audacious-themes x11-themes/qtcurve media-sound/alsa-utils media-video/nvidia-settings sys-fs/reiserfsprogs x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve net-www/netscape-flash media-fonts/freefonts app-misc/screen sys-apps/sdparm media-sound/rip net-irc/irssi app-emulation/vmware-server kde-misc/ksplash-engine-moodin media-fonts/unifont media-gfx/feh app-office/openoffice net-www/mplayerplug-in x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt media-fonts/terminus-font media-sound/audacious www-client/mozilla-firefox media-video/mplayer net-dns/bind-tools sys-process/vixie-cron media-video/dvdbackup x11-base/xorg-x11 media-plugins/audacious-crossfade media-fonts/dejavu x11-misc/googleearth sys-boot/grub dev-util/subversion net-www/nspluginwrapper app-text/acroread net-analyzer/netcat media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera sys-process/htop media-gfx/gimp kde-misc/taskbar-compiz media-fonts/corefonts app-arch/unrar app-portage/layman sys-kernel/gentoo-sources kde-misc/dolphin dev-util/cvs media-plugins/alsa-plugins sys-apps/lshw media-sound/vorbis-tools media-fonts/intlfonts app-cdr/k3b app-emulation/vmware-modules sys-process/schedutils media-fonts/sharefonts net-fs/nfs-utils www-client/opera net-misc/dhcpcd mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird app-portage/eix kde-misc/yakuake x11-wm/beryl kde-misc/kdmtheme app-portage/gentoolkit x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers net-ftp/lftp app-admin/pydf net-misc/ntp kde-base/kde-meta app-admin/metalog app-portage/genlop app-portage/conf-update emerge --info: -------------- Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha3 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:20:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/home/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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 kdeenablefinal xinerama" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Well, I just found out that after I've upgraded vmware-modules, emerge -uav world now does want to do nothing, but emerge -uDNav world wants to downgrade vmware-modules again, as vmware-server seems to depend on a specific version. So I now believe that this actually is not a portage bug, but still a slightly confusing behaviour. I don't know how to mark this bug and don't know if this is the wanted behaviour of portage. So I'll just leave it as new for now, and leave it to dev-portage@gentoo.org to change its status.
(In reply to comment #1). > I don't know how to mark this bug and don't know if this is the wanted > behaviour of portage. So I'll just leave it as new for now, and leave it to > dev-portage@gentoo.org to change its status. The -D behavior is correct. Future versions of portage will behave correctly in any case. You'll also be able to get a warning if something like vmware-server is holding back an upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1343 ***
