On 09/08/2017 08:35, John Covici wrote: > On Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:06:08 -0400, > Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> >> On 2017-07-29 11:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On 29/07/2017 10:51, John Covici wrote: >>>> Hi. In my latest world update, portage wants to include this new >>>> package dev-python/whoosh. The package fails to compile and googling >>>> and searching bgo yields nothing. >>>> >>>> Any assistance would be appreciated. >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'sphinxcontrib-websupport' >>>> distribution was not found and is required by Sphinx >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> * The specific snippet of code: >>>> * sphinx-build -b html -c docs/source/ docs/source/ >>>> docs/source/build/html || die; >>> >>> File a bug at bgo >> >> What was the conclusion of this? After syncing my portage wants to >> build this too (the same exact version), and I'm afraid to let it >> proceed lest I land in a mess. >> >> I couldn't find any relevant filed bug, either. > > I have not had a chance to file a bug, but I got it working by doing > the following: > whoosh was looking for > raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) > pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'sphinxcontrib-websupport' > distribution was not found and is required by Sphinx > So, I emerged that, but I had to use --nodeps because it wanted > whoosh first, and after doing that I was able to emerge whoosh. Very > nuts.
Not nuts at all, looks like a simple circular dependency: whoosh needs sphinxcontrib-websupport (via sphinx) to build, but sphinxcontrib-websupport is declared to depend on whoosh. Circular. This ebuild bug probably crept in as everyone so far who installed sphinx already had a functioning whoosh. All those packages are in stable, so this will hit everyone who now needs whoosh added for the first time. The package maintainer needs to have the info you can give him, so a bug at b.g.o. is indeed called for. These circular dep bugs are tricky to find because installing everything from scratch again and in different order usually doesn't get tested. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
