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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>>>>>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why |
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>>>>>>>>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone |
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>>>>>>>>> once in awhile. |
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>>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages |
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>>>>>>>> that don't need t0 be changed. They won't be used again until the |
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>>>>>>>> dependent package is updated, so why waste time rebuilding them in the |
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>>>>>>>> interim? |
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>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>> No one really gets "burned" by this, they just wonder why installed |
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>>>>>>>> packages aren't upgraded, nothing stops working. |
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>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> I added: |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps n" |
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>>>>>>> to make.conf and ran 'emerge --depclean' and it got rid of a bunch of |
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>>>>>>> stuff, but I'm still confused by boost. --depclean didn't remove it, |
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>>>>>>> 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't downgrade it even --with-bdeps y, but |
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>>>>>>> 'emerge -pv boost' would downgrade it. I also re-emerged twinkle and |
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>>>>>>> rb_libtorrent which are the packages that depend on boost, but the |
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>>>>>>> result is the same. |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> Also man seems to be broken after that --depclean. When I try to use |
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>>>>>>> it, I get errors starting with: |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> sh: /usr/bin/unlzma: No such file or directory |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> - Grant |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> This may help. |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> root@smoker / # equery belongs /usr/bin/unlzma |
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>>>>>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/unlzma in *... ] |
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>>>>>> app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 (/usr/bin/unlzma -> lzma) |
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>>>>>> root@smoker / # |
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>>>>>> I would rebuild that or see why it is not already installed. I would |
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>>>>>> think that would be part of system??? I'm not sure tho. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> I seem to recall some switch from LZMA to BZ2 manpages in an |
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>>>>> etc-update recently ... |
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>>>> emerging lzma-utils fixed it, thank you. I always etc-update as soon |
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>>>> as the packages are built. Should lzma-utils be a dependency of |
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>>>> something? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> - Grant |
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>>> |
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>>> Weird, --depclean wants to remove lzma-utils again even though: |
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>>> |
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>>> # equery depends lzma-utils |
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>>> [ Searching for packages depending on lzma-utils... ] |
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>>> dev-libs/mpfr-2.3.2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.34 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> media-libs/netpbm-10.44.00-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> net-dns/dnsmasq-2.45 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5 (app-arch/lzma-utils) |
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>>> |
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>>> Maybe it's listed as a build-time dependency of coreutils when it |
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>>> should be runtime? |
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>>> |
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>>> - Grant |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> coreutils is an lzma archive, so lzma-utils are required to decompress |
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>> it. So it seems proper that it's a build-time dep. |
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>> I think there was something about man using lzma IF you had lzma-utils |
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>> installed at the time of emerging man. So maybe you can try to unmerge |
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>> lzma-utils, then re-emerge man (and maybe convert your lzma manpages |
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>> to bz2). |
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> man seems to be working fine without lzma-utils now. It looks like I |
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> emerged help2man at some point yesterday so maybe that helped. |
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> I think I've gotten to the bottom of my boost problem. I have |
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> rb_libtorrent installed which requires >=dev-libs/boost-1.35, meaning |
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> boost needs to be in package.keywords. If I remove boost from |
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> package.keywords, should portage tell me there is a problem? I like |
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> the idea of being able to edit package.keywords and know that portage |
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> will either upgrade/downgrade based on the changes, or tell me if |
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> there is a depended-on package installed which doesn't have the |
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> necessary package.keywords entry. |
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Boost 1.36 and above are in separate slots, so you might be able to |
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install one of those alongside the older version of boost and make |
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both of your programs happy. |
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