Portage is failing to notify me of some new packages that are marked stable and ready to be upgraded. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.A new version of a package I am using is marked stable. 2.Some time later, my daily sync is run. 3.I run emerge -upv world to check if there are any updates; no updates are available. 4.Next I go to emerge that package specifically. For example: emerge -p mozilla-firefox 5.The version that would be installed is the one most recently marked stable, while the one I have currently installed is old. emerge -upv world should have caught this. Actual Results: emerge -upv world missed the updates, while a manual install recognizes them. Expected Results: I should have seen the most recent stable package in the list of things to update. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 9 2005, 18:01:45)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acl acpi aim apm avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl directfb doc dvb dvd emboss encode ethereal fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libg++ mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn nas ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam perl plotutils png posix ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp sndfile snmp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb wmf x86 xine xmms xosd xpm xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS It hasn't just happened once or twice. Every other day it misses a package or two. This most recent time it missed the fact that gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.11-r4 had been marked stable for x86. This behavior occurs both on my x86 desktop and my amd64 laptop.
Any possibility that /var/lib/portage is being deleted? Unless you use --oneshot, packages should be being added there.
OK, I'm not using --oneshot. I went to /var/lib/portage and did a cat world and got the following: sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources x11-base/xorg-x11 app-text/acroread media-video/nvidia-glx www-client/mozilla-firefox media-video/nvidia-kernel I do have many many more packages on my system than just these so it would appear that you are right and they are getting deleted somehow. Do you have any idea how they are getting deleted? Is portage doing this or am I making some kind of an error that is deleting them? The file seems to only contain packages that I have installed/reinstalled in the last 2 or 3 weeks. Did portage get an upgrade around that time that might have wiped my world file?
Isn't somewhat expected behaviour? iirc, emerge -u world acts just on the world set, not on the deps... Could be whacked on that, since it's 3 am also...
I think it does dependencies also, if not than there should be some way to check EVERYTHING on the system for upgrades. I did an emerge -p --emptytree world and I noticed that some things like xchat and mozilla-thunderbird were left out. Also left out was media-libs/libmng which is a dependency of thunderbird. However, mozilla-firefox was in the list and so was dev-libs/expat which is a dependency of firefox. So, it appears that stuff I have manually installed recently and the dependencies of those packages are in my list and will be upgraded when I do an emerge -u world. Other things that I have installed but that got wiped out of the list will not be upgraded. This question still remains. How did my world list get wiped? I know that I did not manually go in there and modify/delete it, and the only portage commands I have used are: emerge somePackage emerge unmerge somePackage emerge sync emerge -upv world (I always like to pretend first just to check things) emerge -u world and just a few minutes ago I did emerge -p --emptytree world If anyone has any idea how my world file was wiped, please let me know.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48181 ***
