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Bug 508024 - dev-java/icedtea-7.* - ?
Summary: dev-java/icedtea-7.* - ?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Java (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2014-04-18 16:25 UTC by Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin)
Modified: 2014-04-19 15:23 UTC (History)
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Description Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2014-04-18 16:25:07 UTC
Building Java requires that Java be present.  This much is understood.  However, since I am only using Java 7 (dev-java/icedtea-7.2.4.7 at present), I went to remove dev-java/icedtea-6, and found that I could not because it is a dependency for dev-java/icedtea-7.  There seems to be no reason for this.  In order to update dev-java/icedtea-7, I have to re-emerge dev-java/icedtea-bin-6, use dev-java/icedtea-bin-6 to re-emerge dev-java/icedtea-6, then use dev-java/icedtea-6 to re-emerge dev-java/icedtea-7.  Why I cannot simply update dev-java/icedtea-7 using my existing installed dev-java/icedtea-7 is a mystery to me.  dev-java/icedtea-7 should satisfy the requirement for a JVM to build dev-java/icedtea-7 with, but it apparently does not.

This is forcing me to keep dev-java/icedtea-6 installed for no reason when I do not use it for anything.  If I have some misconfiguration that is causing this, the misconfiguration is not at all obvious.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure dev-java/icedtea-7 is installed.
2. emerge -C dev-java/icedtea-6 and, if installed, dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.
3. emerge -a1 dev-java/icedtea-7.{current}
Actual Results:  
Portage insists on reinstalling dev-java/icedtea-bin-6 and dev-java/icedtea-6 first.  It will not rebuild dev-java/icedtea-7 using the existing dev-java/icedtea-7.

Expected Results:  
I should, surely, be able to re-emerge dev-java/icedtea-7 using my existing, installed, working dev-java/icedtea-7.

babylon5:alaric:~:1 $ emerge --info
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.17, 3.13.7-gentoo-babylon5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.13.7-gentoo-babylon5-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16412588 total,   3845636 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p47
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9-r3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r2, 4.6.3, 4.7.3-r1, 4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo perl-experimental mysql mozilla x11 overlay-dev-alaric
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -mcx16 -mpopcnt"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -mcx16 -mpopcnt"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo                 ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo                 http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo                 http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo                 http://gentoo.osuosl.org                 http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo                 ftp://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo                 http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo                 "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j12"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/perl-experimental /var/lib/layman/mysql /var/lib/layman/mozilla /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/alaric"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif ffmpeg firefox flac fltk fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv id3tag imagemagick ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl openmp opus pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds qt3support qt4 readline sdl session speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff tk tools truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utils v4l v4l2 vdpau vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xpm xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 hda-intel" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-04-18 22:56:24 UTC
Please post your `emerge -vp dev-java/icedtea:7' output in a comment.
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-04-18 22:56:57 UTC
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> Please post your `emerge -vp dev-java/icedtea:7' output in a comment.

Sorry, that should be `emerge -vpt dev-java/icedtea:7'.
Comment 3 Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2014-04-19 15:23:36 UTC
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #2)
> (In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> > Please post your `emerge -vp dev-java/icedtea:7' output in a comment.
> 
> Sorry, that should be `emerge -vpt dev-java/icedtea:7'.

......  *FACEPALM*

OK, OK, disregard ....   about twenty minutes of further testing elided for brevity.

After some further modifications to that command (to investigate why -vpt was giving different results to -vpuDN) I've found what was REALLY causing the problem.  It wasn't dev-java/icedtea:7 that was pulling dev-java/icedtea:6 back in.  It was virtual/jre, which wasn't keyworded unstable and was still sitting at virtual/jre-1.6.0-r2.  Somehow I managed to completely miss it because it was never showing up in the rebuild tree, because of course it was still there and didn't need to be rebuilt.


Many apologies for the false alarm, I'll go ahead and resolve this as invalid....