Bug 35417 – operator !< (in DEPEND) does not work as expected

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2003-12-08 22:33:52 UTC]

I guess that !< is equivalent with >=. 

I have the following installed packages:
  kdelibs-3.1.4
  qt-3.2.3
In qt-3.2.3 the DEPEND include the following line:
   !<kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4

alin root # emerge -upD world

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] <kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.3)

When I change !< in >=, portage works as expected.

[Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-12-09 05:09:57 UTC]

! is the blocks operator.
What are you expecting?

[Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2003-12-09 23:38:14 UTC]

I expect from portage to work.

Do you tell me is normal that portage computes <kdelibs-3.1.4 as TRUE, given the fact that I HAVE kdelibs-3.1.4?

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 00:22:08 UTC]

!< is NOT the same as >=, see `man 5 ebuild` about DEPEND syntax

[Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 00:39:54 UTC]

I understand that. I know that ! is blocking operator.

The thing is that !<kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 should block the package if and only if I do have a version of kdelibs older that 3.1.4. 

The current functionality of portage is equivalent with !<=kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 00:45:25 UTC]

are you absolutely sure that you don't have an older kdelibs version 
installed too ? Run `emerge --unmerge -p \<kdelibs-3.1.4` to check this.

[Comment 6 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 08:39:22 UTC]

Ups... my mistake. 

I'm sorry for this fake bug.