From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:48:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8b732c5-13aa-bd8f-60a4-eca59ef7b34d@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180325220255.3f35115e@katipo2.lan>
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On 03/25/2018 02:02 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:43:41 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> But if the majority demographic is as you describe, then they shouldn't
>> be using anything having dependencies that require package.unmask or **
>> keywords changes.
>
> Again, they *dont*, the problem is portage makes the mistake of
> thinking they do.
>
> This happens especially around virtuals where there is an existing
> problem of portage not doing the right thing when perl-core/* exists in
> some definition.
>
> I don't have details on hand to give you as to how this happens,
> but I've seen this happen often enough around packages *I maintain* and
> *I* can't explain why portage is trying to install it, only that
> --auto-unmask-keep-masks=y makes the problem mysteriously go away.
An issue like that involving REQUIRED_USE has been reported, and today
I've created a patch that corrects the problem:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/622462
> The question for me is not "auto unmask is good" vs "autounmask is
> bad", autounmask is fine on its own and is very useful.
>
> Its the default of --autounmask-keep-masks=n that I find short on value.
>
> If anything, I suggest there needs to be an
> --autounmask-keep-masks=conditional, or something, that narrows the
> range of solutions portage will try and only attempt to unmask ** or
> package.mask in the following conditions:
>
> - An explicitly masked package/version is explicitly requested on the command line.
> - A package is a direct dependency of of the above
> - As above, but for the world file
>
> That is, assume the only reason for masked packages to be considered is:
> - The user in some way directly requested them
> - A logical consequence of the user directly requesting a masked package
It's possible that bug 622462 is not the only way to trigger this
problem. If anyone experiences a problem like this, then a bug report
would be appreciated.
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Thanks,
Zac
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-22 19:03 [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny Michał Górny
2018-03-22 20:17 ` James Le Cuirot
2018-03-22 20:27 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-22 20:31 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-23 1:01 ` Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-23 8:28 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-22 21:47 ` Consus
2018-03-22 22:06 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-22 22:52 ` Geaaru
2018-03-22 23:22 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-23 8:31 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-23 9:48 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-23 10:18 ` Francesco Riosa
2018-03-23 10:38 ` Franz Fellner
2018-03-23 10:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-24 7:02 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-24 8:02 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-24 9:01 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-24 12:54 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-24 18:27 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-24 20:33 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-24 20:44 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-25 2:26 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-25 4:43 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-25 9:02 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-26 7:48 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2018-03-23 10:38 ` Roy Bamford
2018-03-23 10:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-23 13:27 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-23 14:25 ` Arve Barsnes
2018-03-23 16:20 ` Geaaru
2018-03-23 16:23 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2018-03-23 20:16 ` Georgy Yakovlev
2018-03-23 17:44 ` Patrick McLean
2018-03-26 16:48 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-03-26 18:36 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-25 10:13 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2018-03-28 4:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2018-03-23 11:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Consus
2018-05-19 15:53 ` Consus
2018-05-22 20:35 ` Michał Górny
2018-05-28 2:45 ` Richard Yao
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