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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander <wired@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. |
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> Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on |
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> dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] |
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> however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to |
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> dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)] |
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> without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0] |
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> Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was |
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> installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following: |
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> (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts |
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> with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by |
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> (net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed) |
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> which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess |
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> with the internals of Gentoo often. |
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> You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will |
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> have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there |
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> is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these |
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> changes. |
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> [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 |
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Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using |
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the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the |
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case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. |
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See bug 477544. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544 |
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