20960 – PORTAGE problem (the ding-dong effect) pinning gvim and vim to the does not work with KEYWORDS=~x86

Bug 20960 - PORTAGE problem (the ding-dong effect) pinning gvim and vim to the does not work with KEYWORDS=~x86

Summary: PORTAGE problem (the ding-dong effect) pinning gvim and vim to the does not w...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9847

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-05-13 16:25 UTC by Y-z
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Y-z 2003-05-13 16:25:57 UTC

I've added the following to my /var/cache/edb/world file

 <app-editors/gvim-6.2
 <app-editors/vim-core-6.2

And even tried:

  =app-editors/gvim-6.1*
  =app-editors/vim-core-6.1*

But doing a 'emerge -up world' keeps on getting:

  # emerge -up world

  These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

  Calculating world dependencies ...done!
  [ebuild    U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.2_pre3 [6.1-r5] 
  [ebuild    U ] app-editors/gvim-6.2_pre3 [6.1-r8] 

Maybe the interdepency between the two has something to do with it?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge /usr/portage/app-editors/gvim/gvim-6.1-r8.ebuild
2. emerge -up world

Comment 1 Y-z 2003-05-21 02:20:55 UTC

I've got some more output, which might indicate it's indeed an interdependency
problem:

% emerge -vdup world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies /
Parent:    ebuild / app-editors/gvim-6.1-r8 merge
Depstring: >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r3 >=sys-apps/sed-4 sys-devel/autoconf dev-util/cscope vim-with-x? ( virtual/x11 ) gpm? ( >=sys-libs/gpm-1.19.3 ) ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2 ) : ( sys-libs/libtermcap-compat ) perl? ( dev-lang/perl ) python? ( dev-lang/python ) ruby? ( =dev-lang/ruby-1.6* ) ~app-editors/vim-core-6.1 x11-base/xfree gtk2? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.1 virtual/xft ) : ( gnome? ( gnome-base/gnome-libs ) : ( gtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* ) ) ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch )
Candidates: ['>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2', 'dev-lang/perl', '>=sys-apps/sed-4', 'sys-devel/patch', 'dev-lang/python', 'x11-base/xfree', '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r3', '>=sys-libs/gpm-1.19.3', 'dev-util/cscope', 'sys-devel/autoconf', '~app-editors/vim-core-6.1', '=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*']
ebuild: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1
-ebuild: dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r10
ebuild: sys-apps/sed-4.0.7
\ebuild: sys-devel/patch-2.5.4-r5
|ebuild: dev-lang/python-2.2.2-r1
/ebuild: x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2
-ebuild: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48_pre6
ebuild: sys-libs/gpm-1.20.0-r6
\ebuild: dev-util/cscope-15.3
|ebuild: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1
/ebuild: app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r5
-
Parent:    ebuild / app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r5 merge
Depstring: >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r3 >=sys-apps/sed-4 sys-devel/autoconf dev-util/cscope vim-with-x? ( virtual/x11 ) gpm? ( >=sys-libs/gpm-1.19.3 ) ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2 ) : ( sys-libs/libtermcap-compat ) perl? ( dev-lang/perl ) python? ( dev-lang/python ) ruby? ( =dev-lang/ruby-1.6* ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch )
Candidates: ['dev-lang/python', '>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2', '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r3', 'dev-lang/perl', '>=sys-apps/sed-4', '>=sys-libs/gpm-1.19.3', 'sys-devel/autoconf', 'sys-devel/patch', 'dev-util/cscope']
ebuild: dev-lang/python-2.2.2-r1
ebuild: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1
ebuild: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48_pre6
ebuild: dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r10
ebuild: sys-apps/sed-4.0.7
ebuild: sys-libs/gpm-1.20.0-r6
ebuild: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1
ebuild: sys-devel/patch-2.5.4-r5
ebuild: dev-util/cscope-15.3
Exiting... ebuild / app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r5 merge
ebuild: x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10
\Exiting... ebuild / app-editors/gvim-6.1-r8 merge
-
Parent:    ebuild / app-editors/vim-6.1-r21 merge
Depstring: >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r3 >=sys-apps/sed-4 sys-devel/autoconf dev-util/cscope vim-with-x? ( virtual/x11 ) gpm? ( >=sys-libs/gpm-1.19.3 ) ncurses? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2 ) : ( sys-libs/libtermcap-compat ) perl? ( dev-lang/perl ) python? ( dev-lang/python ) ruby? ( =dev-lang/ruby-1.6* ) ~app-editors/vim-core-6.1 !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch )
Candidates: ['dev-lang/python', '>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2', '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r3', 'dev-lang/perl', '>=sys-apps/sed-4', '>=sys-libs/gpm-1.19.3', 'sys-devel/patch', 'sys-devel/autoconf', '~app-editors/vim-core-6.1', 'dev-util/cscope']
ebuild: dev-lang/python-2.2.2-r1
ebuild: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1
ebuild: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48_pre6
ebuild: dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r10
ebuild: sys-apps/sed-4.0.7
ebuild: sys-libs/gpm-1.20.0-r6
ebuild: sys-devel/patch-2.5.4-r5
ebuild: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1
ebuild: app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r5
ebuild: dev-util/cscope-15.3
Exiting... ebuild / app-editors/vim-6.1-r21 merge
-
Parent:    ebuild / sys-devel/prelink-20030505 merge
Depstring: >=dev-libs/elfutils-0.72 !dev-libs/libelf >=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1 >=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.10 !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch )
Candidates: ['>=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.10', '!dev-libs/libelf', '>=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1', 'sys-devel/patch', '>=dev-libs/elfutils-0.72']
ebuild: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.2
\ebuild: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1
ebuild: sys-devel/patch-2.5.4-r5
ebuild: dev-libs/elfutils-0.76-r2
Exiting... ebuild / sys-devel/prelink-20030505 merge
 ...done!
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r5 [6.2_pre3] -gnome +gpm +gtk -gtk2 +ncurses +nls +perl +python -ruby -vim-with-x +X 
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/gvim-6.1-r8 [6.2_pre3] -gnome +gpm +gtk -gtk2 +ncurses +nls +perl +python -ruby -vim-with-x +X 
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/vim-6.1-r21 [6.2_pre3] -gnome +gpm +gtk -gtk2 +ncurses +nls +perl +python -ruby -vim-with-x +X 
[ebuild    U ] sys-devel/prelink-20030505 [20030217]

Comment 2 Y-z 2003-05-21 03:32:24 UTC

OK. This is weird behaviour. An emerge just DOWNgraded the version of all *vim*
builds to the REQUIRED 6.1* version.

But a new upgrade AGAIN shows this:
emerge -up world                                              ~goddess

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.2_pre3 [6.1-r5] 
[ebuild    U ] app-editors/vim-6.2_pre3 [6.1-r21] 

What on earth could be happening?

Comment 3 Y-z 2003-05-26 06:49:02 UTC

Rather frustrating, talking to myself, like this...

The fact is that the versions now change with every emerge -u world:

# emerge -up world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r5 [6.2_pre5] 
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/vim-6.1-r21 [6.2_pre5] 


[ let them build ... ]

# emerge -u world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/vim-core-6.2_pre5 [6.1-r5] 
[ebuild    UD] app-editors/vim-6.2_pre5 [6.1-r21]

This can be repeated ad infinitum...

Comment 4 Richard Stevens 2003-08-11 12:29:12 UTC

this has been going on for quite some time now. I have the same problem with 
netpbm. What's going on? How to find out which app has the broken dependancy? 
 
Thank god ccache makes the rebuild after downgrade fast. Nevertheless it's 
annoying.

Comment 5 Y-z 2003-08-11 15:14:31 UTC

I think the problem lies in this, that a package requires a
certain version of a certain package, ignoring the version specified
in the world file. But the next emerge (the previous requirement now being
satisfied) sees then the specified version, and installs it.

To answer your question, though: I did an emerge -vdup world, but my
guess is that an emerge -vdup <package> may also contain the hints; see
the Additional Comment 1.

And yes, this is rather annoying! I hope it gets fixed soon (although vim
6.2 is now stable, and I do not have the problem anymore ;)

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-08-11 16:53:06 UTC

until #9847 has been fixed, use /etc/portage/package.unmask and package.mask 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9847 ***