Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes
Alex Alexander wrote: Hello, Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)] without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0] Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following: (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by (net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed) which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess with the internals of Gentoo often. You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these changes. [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1r2=1.2 Thanks, As a lowly user, I have been banging on this for a few days now. I'm almost bald from all the hair pulling. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)] without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0] Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following: (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by (net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed) which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess with the internals of Gentoo often. You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these changes. [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1r2=1.2 Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. See bug 477544. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544
Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)] without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0] Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following: (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by (net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed) which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess with the internals of Gentoo often. You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these changes. [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1r2=1.2 Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. See bug 477544. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544 Aha, thanks for the bug, missed it. Well, my recommendation is still valid until portage gets fixed. Glad to know someone's looking into it though. -- Alex Alexander | wired@gentoo + www.linuxized.com ++ www.leetworks.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes
On 7/24/13 8:31 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. See bug 477544. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544 Aha, thanks for the bug, missed it. Well, my recommendation is still valid until portage gets fixed. Glad to know someone's looking into it though. Can we get that recommendation to the devmanual possibly? I'm still a little bit confused what exactly would warrant such a revision bump, and why. Paweł signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)] without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0] Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following: (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by (net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed) which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess with the internals of Gentoo often. You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these changes. [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1r2=1.2 Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. See bug 477544. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544 Moreover, a slot operator dep on Qt libraries is pointless. Please remove the '='. Thanks, Davide
