Re: gentoo package management requires portage-utils package

Good point.  The routine should return a failure back to the package  
manager.  However, since I don't maintain those subroutines I need to  
punt this to that person.

On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Elliott A. Johnson wrote:
> I've noticed when installing gentoo packages via cfengine that it  
> requires binaries provided by the gentoo package app-portage/ 
> portage-utils.
>
> I created an ebuild for cfengine version 2.2.3, which didn't take  
> this into account and so I didn't have portage-utils installed.   
> The cfengine behavior that I exposed by not installing the binaries  
> I would consider undesirable.   Here is an example:
>
>    
> *********************************************************************
>    Main Tree Sched: packages pass 1 @ Mon Mar 17 15:18:53 2008
>    
> *********************************************************************
>
>   PortageCheckPackage(): Requested net-misc/cfengine eq 2.2.3
>   PortageCheckPackage(): Trying installed version cfengine:box1:  
> Couldn't run /usr/bin/qlist
>   PortagePackageCheck(): Result cfengine:box1: Couldn't run /usr/ 
> bin/qatom
>   PortageCheckPackage(): Trying installed version cfengine:box1:  
> execv: No such file or directory
>   PortagePackageCheck(): Result cfengine:box1: Couldn't run /usr/ 
> bin/qatom
>
> Then later on:
>
>   BuildCommandLine(): Adding package 'net-misc/cfengine' to the list.
>
> It seems that since it can't use the qlist & qatom binaries that it  
> fails to compare the package versions.  Instead of disregarding the  
> package it continues with the idea that 'error' != 'cfengine-2.2.3'  
> and reinstalls cfengine-2.2.3.  Wouldn't the desired behavior be to  
> backout of the installation of that package after it received an  
> error result?
>
> In my case this was an error in package management, but what if in  
> other cases the qlist or qatom binaries were unexecutable for some  
> reason.  This could mean that any packages configured to be at a  
> certain version would be reinstalled or potentially worse upgraded.
>
> I thought I'd point it out here in case the issue hadn't yet been  
> discovered or documented.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Elliott Johnson
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