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Bug 472208 - emerge should show a warning when it is skipping a newer version due to some problem
Summary: emerge should show a warning when it is skipping a newer version due to some ...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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: 540474 566258 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 155723
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Reported: 2013-06-03 19:44 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2020-03-24 17:45 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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script that checks all installed slots for new versions (update-slot-check.py,420 bytes, text/x-python)
2013-06-08 23:25 UTC, Zac Medico 		Details
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-06-03 19:44:05 UTC 
I often see how a latest version is being silently skipped because of problems like something missing in IUSE or other problems. Would be nice if it could also show the error message (error message that I can see when forcing it to try to merge affected version using =<category>/<package>-x.x

Thanks

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-06-03 20:12:32 UTC 
Currently, warnings are only shown when the new version has a missing dependency or triggers a dependency conflict.
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-06-08 23:25:35 UTC 
Created attachment 350456 [details]
script that checks all installed slots for new versions

Until emerge has this built in, you can use this script to check all installed slots for new versions.

On my system, I noticed that some updates were being held back by dependencies on specific versions. For example, app-office/libreoffice-4.0.3.3 pulls in these specific atoms:

  =dev-libs/liborcus-0.5.1
  <dev-util/mdds-0.8.0

Should we provide different emerge options to control warnings for different kinds of dependency constraints (version vs. USE constraints)?
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2015-11-22 19:10:15 UTC 
*** Bug 566258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2016-02-06 13:33:27 UTC 
*** Bug 540474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2020-03-24 17:45:39 UTC 
When an update is skipped due to an optional build time dependency, it can be confusing, since since the skipped update message may not be shown and masking the old version may allow the upgrade to continue.