Bug 271551 – [PATCH] Resolving virtual name(s) to actual package name issue(s)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-05-28 15:39:59 UTC]

This is after "emerge -C virtual/mpg123 media-sound/mpg123"

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ssuominen@unique ~/gentoo-x86/profiles $ sudo emerge -av mpg123

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies -

  
[ Results for search key : mpg123 ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
 
*  media-sound/mpg123
      Latest version available: 1.7.3
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 1,125 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.mpg123.org
      Description:   a realtime MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player for layers 1, 2 and 3.
      License:       GPL-2 LGPL-2.1

*  virtual/mpg123
      Latest version available: 0
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 0 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.gentoo.org
      Description:   Virtual for command-line players mpg123 and mpg321
      License:       

!!! The short ebuild name "mpg123" is ambiguous. Please specify
!!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead.

... done!

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Same problem for virtual/cdrtools. Can we please get the real package name preferred in the dep calculation first? It's pretty annoying for users "emerge -av cdrtools" or "emerge -av mpg123" when it isn't coming from a virtual pulled in by 3rd party ebuild.

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-05-28 15:41:14 UTC]

This is sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 by the way, the problem has been there for quite a while, Sorry I haven't opened a report before.

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-05-28 15:42:55 UTC]

And just to be clear, I'm proposing this for the virtual handling only, leaving alone the pkgs that just happen to have same name in tree..

[Comment 3 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-06-10 08:41:20 UTC]

Created attachment 194091 [details, diff]
If we have to decide between a non-virtual and one or more virtual packages, choose the non-virtual package without calling ambiguous_package_name.

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-09-06 18:26:32 UTC]

Update: virtual/mpg123 isn't in tree anymore, it's only virtual/cdrtools now that *I know of*. If you don't like the idea, feel free to close this off... it's just a suggestion

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2009-10-09 07:17:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=194091) [details]
> If we have to decide between a non-virtual and one or more virtual packages,
> choose the non-virtual package without calling ambiguous_package_name.
> 

Thanks, this is in svn r14522.

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2009-10-11 00:40:24 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.7 and 2.2_rc45.