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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we list sys-apps/sed in DEPEND
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:02:44
Message-Id: 5123B029.9010604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we list sys-apps/sed in DEPEND by Brian Dolbec
1 On 02/19/2013 07:21 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 14:10 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote:
3 >> ... if it is used in the ebuild?
4 >>
5 >> It is a system package here on amd64, but is it everywhere?
6 >>
7 >> Cheers,
8 >> Thomas
9 >>
10 >
11 > Only if the pkg is also a system package. I recently ran into a problem
12 > running a catalyst build because portage-utils did not list the xz-utils
13 > dep which was another system package. It failed to unpack because
14 > xz-utils was still waiting to be merged. I was running catalyst with
15 > --jobs=3.
16
17 If it's not in $PORTDIR/profiles/default/linux/packages.build then it's
18 not necessarily included in stage1 and therefore you can't rely on it
19 for stage1 -> stage2 -> stage3. If that's the case, then it has to be in
20 *DEPEND for anything in stage3.
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac