Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

[kashani]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM, kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net> wrote:
>> kashani@www01 ~ $ emerge -pvt bugzilla
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1".
>> (dependency required by "perl-core/Module-Build-0.35" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone-0.98" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "www-apps/bugzilla-3.4.1-r1" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "bugzilla" [argument])
>>
>>        I don't see anything in man emerge that would help me track down the
>> missing dependency. Is there any easy way to do this or do I have to track
>> it down the Modeule-Build dependency tree which looks to be the culprit.
>>
>> kashani
>
> What version of bugzilla are you trying to emerge? That perl is newer
> than any I see in my portage. Are you using an overlay?
> www-apps/bugzilla-3.4.1-r1 seems to emerge fine and works with perl
> 5.8 here.
>

	I'm trying to get bugzilla-3.4.1-r1 (or 3.4.1) to work which is just 
~x86 and not any overlay. I'm planning to update a system in Nov and 
wanted to play with the latest build at home. Mostly interested in 3.4.1 
since the API is a bit newer and not completely backwards compatible. 
Has a few nice things in it though.

	Module-Build-0.35 doesn't seem to require perl 5.10 in the ebuild so it 
must be a dependency of a dependency. Same in DateTime-TimeZone. I'd 
like portage to tell me where the dependency tree is breaking, ie which 
package is asking for perl-5.10, so I can mask or futz with the ebuild 
for that package appropriately.

kashani