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From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: ppc@gentoo.org, Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] virtual evolution
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 03:24:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29AF6280-9EFC-11D8-90CF-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org> (raw)

Hi,

I have an annoying bug, caused by a portage deficiency that imho can be 
quite easily solved:

Assume the virtual/jdk is satisfied by blackdown-jdk with version-1.3 
(meaning: blackdown-jdk-1.3 is installed and provides virtual/jdk-1.3)
The virtual/jdk default implementation is then changed from 
blackdown-jdk to ibm-jdk in the users profile.
The user installs a package depending on virtual/jdk-1.4, ibm-jdk with 
version 1.4 gets installed.

When the user runs emerge --update world, portage complains there is no 
1.4 version of blackdown-jdk.

To make emerge --update world work again, the user has to unmerge 
blackdown-jdk. If the user emerges blackdown-jdk again afterwards, 
emerge --update world still works.
Shouldn't portage update the virtual provider every time an ebuild 
providing a virtual gets installed?

Best regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-06  1:25 UTC|newest]

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2004-05-06  1:24 Pieter Van den Abeele [this message]
2004-05-06  9:40 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] virtual evolution Paul de Vrieze

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