emerge continually rebuilds same packages per sub-slot

platojones

I'm getting the same emerge package rebuilds over and over. No matter how many times I rebuild these, they pop right back up again the next time I run the emerge command shown below. I know this is because of some kind of sub-slot changes, but I cannot figure out exactly what is triggering it. I did run emerge with the --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y switch and they disappear, so I know sub-slot changes are causing it. Can anybody point me in the right direction here so I can track down what is causing this?

platojones · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:23 am Post subject:

Well, for right now, I've put the --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y option into my EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variable in my make.conf. And that "fixes" the problem, but I have the feeling that it's not really fixed. I've considered opening a bug, but I really don't know if portage is exhibiting proper behavior or not, since I have no idea what specific package or packages are triggering the problem. I'm open to any suggestions, since I'm out of ideas.

dol-sen · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:59 am Post subject:

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

I had the same problem caused by libpng, I had added an updated one to my keywords, it went away due to an upgrade for libpng, world update wanted to emerge same packages over and over, I discovered libpng when I went package by package to solve it.

unmasked libpng-1.6.6 and updated it, and all was back to normal.

George

platojones · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:29 pm Post subject:

Thank you both, dol-sen and thumper. I get it now...you both provided just the hints I needed and it solved the problem. And yes, thumper, it was libpng for me as well. I know where to start looking when this happens again.

lkraav · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:29 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, so how do I detect which package is the culprit? I'm seeing a list of 4 packages getting rR all the time, common denominator seems to be python.

RAPHEAD · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:08 pm Post subject:

I have exactly the same problem. No matter what I emerge, portage re-emerges libreoffice-4.1.2.3.
Consider this example:

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

What does emerge -pv libpng show and what does equery depends libpng show?

lkraav · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:57 pm Post subject:

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

well for starters the obvious would be to upgrade libpng.

lkraav · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:23 pm Post subject:

Wow, I think just doing libpng update solved this.

lkraav · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:42 am Post subject:

Taking it back: libpng doesn't seem to have had any effect

few · Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 448

Using portage-9999 (or 2.2.8 when it is released) should solve your problems.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

few · Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 448

lkraav · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject:

You the man @few. Looking forward to 2.2.8.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

Few: thanks for the links. I had found one of those bugs previously and applied the change to increase output, but did not get any new messages for the loop I was seeing. I missed the bug where you changed the logic to handle the mixed >= / < requirements.