Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Info + Status Update: DEPEND=">=...." mis-map

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Jason Stubbs wrote:

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> On Saturday 03 July 2004 03:34, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:42:46 +0000 (UTC)
> > > Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> wrote:
> > > > DEPEND=">=sys-apps/texinfo-4.3 ....
> > > >
> > > > With .51_pre12, on some (but not all) systems, this eventually
> > > > gets translated into ">=sys-devel/gcc-4.3" and then of course
> > > > fails.
> > >
> > > I had a very similar issue once, and it was because of a wrong
> > > entry in my /etc/portage/virtuals file. You should probably check
> > > there if there is a line like "sys-apps/texinfo sys-devel/gcc".
> >
> > I don't have any virtuals file at the moment. But your example would
> > cause the problem, I guess.
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53745
>
> If you also have gcc-2.95.3-r5 (or another earlier version installed), can you
> tar up /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc* and attach it to the bug? If not, feel free
> to re-open. I'd like to figure out exactly what is causing this...
>

Done.  I attached the tar (tbz2) to 53745 as you requested.
As reported in the bug report, this system did have a couple
gcc-2.95.3s lying around (-r5, -r7).  Unmerging them caused the
problem to disappear.

Thanks for the pointer, and I hope the information helps.

 
Regards,
Ferris

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc)
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