Re: [gentoo-catalyst] DEPEND/RDEPEND vs. binary packages

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:35 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Apparently, when you are installing a binary version of a package, the
> DEPEND packages are not installed.  But, some parts of the ebuild are
> still run, such as pkg_setup().  Is this true?  In Catalyst, as you
> know, the package is only built from source the first time and
> thereafter the binary package is installed; I've run into various
> packages which are not handling this properly.

This is correct.  DEPEND is for build-time dependencies, and RDEPEND is
for run-time dependencies.

> As two examples: one package does an "inherit webapp", and then in
> livecd-stage1, the webapp.eclass webapp_pkg_setup() function tries to
> source ${ETC_CONFIG}, which is /etc/vhosts/webapp-config.  But, of
> course, the webapp-config package is not installed when installing
> binary packages, because webapp.eclass only adds it to the DEPEND list.

This is a bug in the package.  It requires webapp-config to be in *both*
DEPEND and RDEPEND.

> Another is the freeradius package which links with a shared library from
> the libtool package (libltdl.so), but has no dependency on it and so
> it's not installed during binary package setup.  At runtime, the daemon
> fails due to the missing shared library.

File a bug.

> How do you deal with problems like this?  Are these bugs in the ebuild
> that should be filed against the package in question?  Or...?

Yes, they are bugs.

Welcome to QA.  Building a CD via catalyst is probably the best QA
Gentoo has, simply because we do things that a lot of developers don't
consider.  When you come across a bug such as these, definitely file a
bug against the package.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux