Bug 394773 – Proposal of "-h" flag for 'fixpackages'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description David 2011-12-15 04:49:44 UTC]

There seems to be no built-in documentation about what /usr/sbin/fixpackages does, even though it is sometimes necessary to run manually (as prompted by portage).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fixpackages -h
2. fixpackages --help
3. man fixpackages
4. man portage  [then search for "fixpackages"]
Actual Results:  
No info provided.

Expected Results:  
Some output for 'fixpackages -h' or 'man fixpackages'   --  something along the lines of the following, which is info (perhaps incomplete) that I scavenged from the Gentoo Forums...


fixpackages fixes dependencies (such as when packages move from one category to another) only in tbz2 packages in /usr/portage/packages.  fixpackages can be ignored unless you use -b or FEATURES="buildpkg".

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-12-15 18:20:58 UTC]

The latest release has a fixpackage man page, from bug 393517:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=c93a46851c43f7e8539a67b2376dc8f55af41789

[Comment 2 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) 2013-07-30 20:56:38 UTC]

Created attachment 354662 [details, diff]
[PATCH] Fixes the bug

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2013-07-30 22:38:12 UTC]

(In reply to Alexander Berntsen from comment #2)
> Created attachment 354662 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> [PATCH] Fixes the bug

Thanks, this is in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2b4abfe

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2013-08-03 10:20:19 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.13.3 and 2.2.0_alpha192.