An 'emerge --noreplace git' makes portage crash because 'git' is ambiguous: 'app-misc/git', 'dev-util/git' Shows a traceback instead of a nice error message. Note the --noreplace option. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ sudo emerge --noreplace -a git Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies / !!! Problem in 'dev-util/git' dependencies. !!! ['app-misc/git', 'dev-util/git'] exceptions Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6971, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6965, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6232, in action_build retval, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2078, in select_files self.mysd = self.select_dep(myroot, myatom, arg=myarg) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2437, in select_dep metadata=selected_pkg[1], rev_dep=rev_deps, arg=arg): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1784, in create all_ebuilds_masked = bool( File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7365, in xmatch mydep = dep_expand(origdep, mydb=self, settings=self.mysettings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5358, in dep_expand return prefix + cpv_expand( File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5583, in cpv_expand raise ValueError, matches ValueError: ['app-misc/git', 'dev-util/git'] Expected Results: Show me the alternatives without crash.
This is fixed in 2.1.5_rc.
*** Bug 235844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 242928 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
