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From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhruba@××××××××××××.uk>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>, Gentoo User <gentoo-user@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage quibbles
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:08:00
Message-Id: 1048176687.1561.22.camel@wolf.codewordt.co.uk
1 Hello,
2
3 I would like to raise the following quibbles with portage. When I say
4 world file below I am referring to /var/cache/edb/world.
5
6 (1) Certain packages remain in world file even when uninstalled.
7 (2) Certain packages are installed but not added to world file.
8
9 E.g. If I install evolution and that installs mozilla as a dependency
10 then mozilla is not put in world file.
11
12 (3) Sometimes pinning an item in world file like '>=net-www/mozilla-1.3'
13 does not stop an 'emerge -up -deep world' from downgrading it because
14 another package like evolution wants an older version.
15
16 (4) Injecting stubs for packages although prevents downgrading can get
17 messy if you find yourself injecting a lot of them and it can be hard to
18 keep track of. Is there a way to list all stubs?
19
20 (5) Also, how do you remove a stub? Is it by 'emerge -C'
21 <category>/<package>-<version>-<release>?
22
23 Since I'm using some unstable and rest stable packages the issue of
24 downgrading is making life troublesome for me. It'd be interesting to
25 hear how the rest of you deal with them. I don't wish to run on the
26 unstable tree but just wish to install some of the unstable packages.
27 Incidentally, if I use the -U (upgrade only) flag I get the following
28 error.
29
30 ----
31 Calculating world dependencies \
32 !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.1" have
33 been masked.
34 !!! (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.1" [ebuild])
35
36 !!! Problem with ebuild media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.1
37 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
38
39 !!! Depgraph creation failed.
40 ----
41
42 My emerge info is given below.
43
44 --
45 Dhruba Bandopadhyay
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52 Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
53 =================================================================
54 System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
55 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/
56 http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
57 http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ "
58 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
59 /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
60 /usr/share/config"
61 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
62 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
63 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
64 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
65 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
66 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
67 USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww
68 mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2
69 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java
70 guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt
71 kde motif opengl aalib acpi alsa cdr directfb dvd esd fbcon gtk2 imap
72 mozilla moznoirc moznomail moznocompose moznoxft mozsvg nas sse tcltk
73 tiff usb xml"
74 COMPILER="gcc3"
75 CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
76 CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
77 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
78 -fforce-addr"
79 CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
80 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
81 -fforce-addr"
82 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
83 MAKEOPTS="-j4"
84 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
85 SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
86 FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
87
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage quibbles Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>