From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R3ElV-0007cM-Tj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:14:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A0D321C32A; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA8721C315 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE031B400C for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:12:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.98 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.98 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.619, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MqQjmPKR1eAe for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EBD1B400E for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3EjY-0007ZX-Bt for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:12:08 +0200 Received: from athedsl-377994.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.28.136]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:12:08 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-377994.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:12:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: package.provided messes up emerging of package slots? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:11:39 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <2037937.Ts9Eii1Yvy@pc> <2997894.3Y8B7AYbSD@pc> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-377994.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110822 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <2997894.3Y8B7AYbSD@pc> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3ec77b806e892f27e14a3bc18aaf0b06 On 09/13/2011 12:18 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > On Monday, 12. September 2011 23:42:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 09/12/2011 10:02 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>> On Monday, 12. September 2011 21:31:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>> On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>>>> On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>>>> On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>>>>>> On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>>>>>> In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this: >>>>>>>> media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the >>>>>>>> newer >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> version, I get: >>>>>>>> $ emerge freetype >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> WARNING: A requested package will not be merged >>>>>>>> because >>>>>>>> it is >>>>>>>> listed >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> in package.provided: >>>>>>>> freetype pulled in by 'args' >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean >>>>>>>> packages? >>>>>>>> [Yes/No] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Trying "emerge freetype:2" also won't work. The only only to >>>>>>>> emerge >>>>>>>> it >>>>>>>> seems is by using the whole version ("emerge >>>>>>>> =freetype-2.4.6"). >>>>>>>> Is >>>>>>>> this >>>>>>>> a bug? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> At least it's inconsistent. I would expect that the emerge with >>>>>>> complete version also fails. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's slotted, so it shouldn't fail. Freetype 1 and 2 can be >>>>>> installed >>>>>> at the same time. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, that's true for the packages provided by portage. portage does >>>>> not >>>>> know anything about the freetype you provide, so it shouldn't >>>>> install >>>>> any freetype from any slot by any command. >>>> >>>> I don't see how it doesn't know anything about it, given that it >>>> requires me to list a full package atom in package.provided. So it >>>> always knows which version should be considered as being provided. >>> >>> Yes. freetype version 1. So if a package depends on freetype version 1, >>> portage assumes, the dep is already installed. >>> It does not know, where it is installed, or what files it installed. So >>> it has to assume, that an emerge of freetype-2 actually could overwrite >>> some of your freetype-1 files. Therefore it should not install >>> freetype-2 with any command, if you have any version of freetype in >>> package.provided. >> >> I disagree. A slotted package is practically two different packages >> that simply share the same name. If one slot is assumed as being >> provided, then that slot should have no effect on the other ones. > > You cannot provide a slot - you provide a package - freetype in this case. A > slot is a gentoo specific thing. So is package.provided :-) >> With your argument, portage should not install *any* packages at all if >> there's even a single entry in package.provided, because it doesn't know >> what that package installs and therefore *any other* package could >> results in conflicts. > > Say, you had freetype-2.x in your package provided and for some reason you > configured it to install to /usr/include/freetype, /usr/lib/freetype and so on. > What should emerge do, if you now emerge freetype:1? Install it and overwrite > your provided package? Yes. It should do exactly that. Because of lack of information, it should assume that I know what I'm doing. Fortunately, it does exactly that :-) The original point of my post is why it works with "emerge foo-version" but not with "emerge foo:slot".