Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 09/27/2013 11:09:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 27/09/2013 10:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used
> by
> > portage to re-emerge
> > some packages.
> >
> > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say,
> > app-shells/zsh-completions
> > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows  'rR') several packages including,
> i.e.,
> > app-office/libreoffice
> >
> > I can't imaging libreoffice depends in any way on zsh-completions.
> >
> > So, what's going on?
> >
> > (and rebuilding libreoffice isn't just fun)
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Helmut.
>
>
> You didn't supply any output or any details about your system, so your
> question can't be properly answered. I can make a guess, so from the
> man
> page:
>
>               r   reinstall (forced for some reason, possibly due to
> slot or sub-slot)
>               R   replacing (remerging same version)
>
>
> I'd guess libreoffice needs to be rebuilt and is triggered by a
> sub-slot
> (in the old days you would have had to run revdep-rebuild or emerge
> @preserved-rebuild to find this)
>
> I imagine this is in no way related to zsh-completions, that just
> happens to be on the command line. It's related to running emerge.
>
> If you require a better answer, please provide proper emerge output.
> Rage questions don't usually lead to correct explanations
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>

Here is a full example:
emerge -auv1 app-shells/zsh-completions

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies - * Digest verification failed:
  * /LOCAL/local/portage/dev-python/wxpython/wxpython-9999.ebuild
  * Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
  * Got: 4166
  * Expected: 4167
... done!
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/setuptools-1.1.6  PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7  
python3_3 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/sip-4.15.2:0/10  USE="-debug -doc"  
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -python2_6 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/pyopenssl-0.13.1  USE="-doc"  
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/pmw-2.0.0-r2:py3  USE="-doc -examples  
{-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_3 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.8-r1   
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/pytz-2013d  PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7  
python3_3 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/paramiko-1.11.0  USE="-doc -examples"  
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/numpydoc-0.4-r1  USE="{-test}"  
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/PyQt4-4.10.3  USE="X dbus declarative help  
kde opengl script sql svg webkit -debug -doc -examples -multimedia  
-phonon -scripttools -xmlpatterns" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3  
-python2_6 -python3_2" 0 kB
[ebuild     U  ] app-shells/zsh-completions-0.10.0::sunrise  
[0.8.0::sunrise] 145 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2  USE="bluetooth  
branding cups dbus gnome gtk java kde opengl vba webdav (-aqua) -debug  
-eds -gstreamer -gtk3 -jemalloc -mysql -odk -postgres -telepathy  
{-test}" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-minimizer -nlpsolver  
-scripting-beanshell -scripting-javascript -wiki-publisher"  
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7  
python3_3" 0 kB

Total: 11 packages (1 upgrade, 10 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 145 kB


Does portage keep a "todo list" anywhere?

Thanks,
Helmut.