358729 – app-portage/eix-0.22.8: eix -P misses some packages

Bug 358729 - app-portage/eix-0.22.8: eix -P misses some packages

Summary: app-portage/eix-0.22.8: eix -P misses some packages

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Third-Party Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Väth

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Reported:	2011-03-13 17:57 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2011-07-05 14:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-03-13 17:57:15 UTC

eix -P misses packages when the virtual is specified with the category:

   $ eix --only-names -P virtual/mda
   mail-filter/maildrop
   mail-filter/procmail

Whereas without the category, the list seems to be complete:

   $ eix --only-names -P mda
   mail-filter/maildrop
   mail-filter/procmail
   mail-mta/courier
   mail-mta/mini-qmail
   mail-mta/netqmail
   mail-mta/postfix
   mail-mta/qmail-ldap

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2011-03-14 18:33:29 UTC

The reason is that virtual/mda (because there is / inside)
looks for the beginning of a string and not for a substring (like without /).

The "true" bug is that eix considers PROVIDE as a single string and not
as a vector of strings which is perhaps more reasonable.

I added a corresponding patch to the eix svn trunk (>=eix-0.22.9).

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2011-07-05 14:33:59 UTC

app-portage/eix-0.22.9 is in the tree