4556 – emerge --onlydeps refuses to install packages blocking itself

Bug 4556 - emerge --onlydeps refuses to install packages blocking itself

Summary: emerge --onlydeps refuses to install packages blocking itself

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

URL:	http://majestix.homelinux.net
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Reported:	2002-07-04 21:10 UTC by Felix Nawothnig
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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links seems to have problems with bugzilla... again... (emerge.patch,5.01 KB, patch) 2002-07-04 21:15 UTC, Felix Nawothnig	Details \| Diff
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Description Felix Nawothnig 2002-07-04 21:10:17 UTC

When emerge is called with --onlydeps and the package is blocking itself over a virtual (e.g. net-mail/exim blocks virtuals/mta) it refuses to install the package. A patch on 2.0.9 is available at http://majestix.homelinux.net/emerge.patch

Comment 1 Felix Nawothnig 2002-07-04 21:15:07 UTC

Created attachment 1966 [details, diff]
links seems to have problems with bugzilla... again...

Well, seems links doesn't work well with bugzilla, so again...
emerge --nodeps refuses to install packages blocking itself (e.g. net-mail/exim
blocks virtual/mta)
Here is the patch on 2.0.9. again....

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-11 03:41:40 UTC

Does Portage 2.0.11 work correctly in this regard?

Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-29 23:37:30 UTC

This appears to be fixed in Portage 2.0.20+ (rewrote a good deal of this code.)
 Closing this bug.