612094 – sys-apps/portage: backtracking runtime package mask can interact badly with slot operator rebuilds

Bug 612094 - sys-apps/portage: backtracking runtime package mask can interact badly with slot operator rebuilds

Summary: sys-apps/portage: backtracking runtime package mask can interact badly with s...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	155723 612780
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Reported:	2017-03-09 05:58 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2018-08-27 19:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	559354
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-03-09 05:58:54 UTC

I have a test case which demonstrates that the backtracking runtime package mask can interact badly with slot operator rebuilds, and a patch that fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-03-09 06:16:01 UTC

Patch posted for review:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/e59a162c00085249737df318d23a4673
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/135

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-03-09 19:39:35 UTC

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=c01f3fbd23def329eb1d1b0fc8f79959119a8a82

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-05-20 18:25:03 UTC

Fixed in portage-2.3.5.