Bug 536212 – net-analyzer/net-snmp USE=-perl installs perl scripts / should conditionally depend on dev-lang/perl

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bruno 2015-01-10 14:48:43 UTC]

When installing net-snmp with USE=-perl it should not (runtime) depend on perl.

emerge net-snmp:
net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.7.3_pre5-r1 to /mnt/aphrodite/ USE="bzip2 ipv6 minimal ssl zlib -X -doc -elf -lm_sensors -mfd-rewrites -mysql -netlink -pci -perl -python -rpm (-selinux) -tcpd -ucd-compat" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"


Perl dependency is added by perl-module eclass, unconditionally.

Files installed which need perl:
/usr/share/snmp/snmp_perl_trapd.pl
/usr/bin/ipf-mod.pl
/usr/bin/net-snmp-cert
/usr/bin/snmp-bridge-mib

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-19 11:43:22 UTC]

What if you then remove dev-lang/perl - do snmpd and snmptrapd it still run as expected? Because the hard dependency on dev-lang/perl might happen to be correct in that case.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-19 11:48:24 UTC]

# grep '#!.*perl' `qlist -eo net-snmp`
/usr/bin/fixproc:#!/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/snmp-bridge-mib:#!/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/snmpconf:#!/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/ipf-mod.pl:#!/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/net-snmp-cert:#!/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/traptoemail:#!/usr/bin/perl
/usr/share/snmp/mib2c.perl.conf:#!/usr/bin/perl -w

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-19 11:58:25 UTC]

I'll do some testing with an improved ebuild. The current ebuilds already remove some perl scripts, so we should just extend that and set a magical variable to remove the hard-coded dev-lang/perl dependency inherited from perl-module.eclass and then re-add the dependency conditionally in the ebuild.

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-19 15:10:10 UTC]

Please try with -r3.

[Comment 5 Bruno 2015-02-14 17:37:04 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #4)
> Please try with -r3.

Works for me, thanks