Today I noticed, that lang/gcc13 gets post hoc registered as dependency
for completely unrelated packages!
If I install packages of which none depends on gcc13 (by pkg(1))
and install gcc13 afterwards (via pkg(1))
the previously installed dependency free packages suddenly seem to have
a dependency on gcc13 .
Never seen this problem before updating to pkg(1) >1.21.3.
Steps to reproduce:
cd /usr/ports/inoffical/mymetadesktopport && env USE_PACKAGE_DEPENDS=1 make
pkg info | wc -l
652
pkg info | grep -i gcc
gccmakedep-1.0.4 Create dependencies in makefiles using
'gcc -M'
At this point, resolving run-dependencies for
inoffical/mymetadesktopport results in 652 installed ports without gcc13.
pkg install gcc13
pkg: Insufficient privileges to install packages
Trying again as 'root':
Updating localrepo_x86-64-v3 repository catalogue...
localrepo_x86-64-v3 repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Updating database digests format: 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
gcc13: 13.3.0
Number of packages to be installed: 1
The process will require 321 MiB more space.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Installing gcc13-13.3.0...
[1/1] Extracting gcc13-13.3.0: 100%
At this point, gcc13 was installed and nothing else changed!
See what happens if I want to revert the last step, ie remove gcc13
immediately afterwards again:
pkg delete gcc13
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 222 packages (of 0
packages in the universe):
Installed packages to be REMOVED:
7-zip: 24.09
Imath: 3.1.12
abseil: 20250127.0
:
:
:
xscreensaver: 6.09
xsnow: 3.8.4
xv: 6.0.2
Number of packages to be removed: 222
The operation will free 5 GiB.
Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]:
Why/how does that happen? (note that nothing changed between 'pkg
install gcc13' and 'pkg delete gcc13' - but gcc13 wants to doom 222
unrelated packages!)
Thanks in advance,
-harry
