diff --git a/spec/unit/provider/package/portage_spec.rb b/spec/unit/provider/package/portage_spec.rb
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+#! /usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+provider = Puppet::Type.type(:package).provider(:portage)
+
+describe provider do
+  before do
+    packagename="sl"
+    @resource = stub('resource', :[] => packagename,:should => true)
+    @provider = provider.new(@resource)
+    
+    portage   = stub(:executable => "foo",:execute => true)
+    Puppet::Provider::CommandDefiner.stubs(:define).returns(portage)
+
+    @nomatch_result = ""
+    @match_result   = "app-misc sl [] [] http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toyoda/index_e.html http://www.izumix.org.uk/sl/ sophisticated graphical program which corrects your miss typing\n"
+  end
+
+  it "is versionable" do
+    provider.should be_versionable
+  end
+
+  it "uses :emerge to install packages" do
+    @provider.expects(:emerge)
+    
+    @provider.install
+  end
+
+  it "uses query to find the latest package" do
+    @provider.expects(:query).returns({:versions_available => "myversion"})
+    
+    @provider.latest
+  end
+
+  it "uses eix to search the lastest version of a package" do
+    @provider.stubs(:update_eix)
+    @provider.expects(:eix).returns(StringIO.new(@match_result))
+    
+    @provider.query
+  end
+
+  it "eix arguments must not include --stable" do
+    @provider.class.eix_search_arguments.should_not include("--stable")
+  end
+
+  it "eix arguments must not include --exact" do
+    @provider.class.eix_search_arguments.should_not include("--exact")
+  end
+
+  it "query uses default arguments" do
+    @provider.stubs(:update_eix)
+    @provider.expects(:eix).returns(StringIO.new(@match_result))
+    @provider.class.expects(:eix_search_arguments).returns([])
+    
+    @provider.query
+  end
+
+  it "can handle search output with empty square brackets" do
+    @provider.stubs(:update_eix)
+    @provider.expects(:eix).returns(StringIO.new(@match_result))
+    
+    @provider.query[:name].should eq("sl")
+  end
+end