149345 2006-09-27 13:27 0000 games-fps/quake4-bin + games-fps/quake4-data - circular dependencies 2006-09-28 06:38:15 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Games 2006.1 All Linux CLOSED FIXED P2 major --- 1 Jimmy.Jazz@gmx.net games@gentoo.org brebs@sent.com dev-portage@gentoo.org Jimmy.Jazz@gmx.net 2006-09-27 13:27:51 0000 Hello, please could you look after that circular dependencies in quake4 ebuild. Thx, Jj USE flag: cdinstall # emerge -av quake4-bin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / games-fps/quake4-bin-1.3.2 merge depends on ebuild / games-fps/quake4-data-1.0.2147.12 merge (hard) ebuild / games-fps/quake4-data-1.0.2147.12 merge depends on ebuild / games-fps/quake4-bin-1.3.2 merge (hard) wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2006-09-27 13:57:48 0000 This new circular dependency detection sucks... especially since there's no way to say "yes, these packages both depend on each other for runtime, but this one should be installed first" in an ebuild. Anyway, I'll "fix" this by removing the dependency from one of them and putting in a warning note. wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2006-09-27 14:06:14 0000 Fixed now in CVS zmedico@gentoo.org 2006-09-27 14:26:50 0000 (In reply to comment #1) > This new circular dependency detection sucks... especially since there's no way > to say "yes, these packages both depend on each other for runtime, but this one > should be installed first" in an ebuild. If you do one as a PDEPEND, then it will be treated as a soft dependency, which means that a circular dep will be okay and the merge order will not be strictly enforced. wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2006-09-27 14:45:59 0000 Thanks, Zac. Sorry if I seem a little dense, but I would only list it as PDEPEND, or both RDEPEND *and* PDEPEND? Should I do both as PDEPEND, or pick one to be RDEPEND and one PDEPEND, fex. quake4-data would PDEPEND quake4-bin and quake4-bin would RDEPEND quake4-data? zmedico@gentoo.org 2006-09-27 15:05:14 0000 (In reply to comment #4) > Sorry if I seem a little dense, but I would only list it as PDEPEND, or both > RDEPEND *and* PDEPEND? If you do both, then the RDEPEND will still be treated as a hard dep as for as portage is concerned, so the PDEPEND would be rendered useless. > Should I do both as PDEPEND, or pick one to be RDEPEND > and one PDEPEND, fex. quake4-data would PDEPEND quake4-bin and quake4-bin > would RDEPEND quake4-data? Either one of those will work. As long as they don't both RDEPEND on eachother you should be fine. brebs@sent.com 2006-09-27 15:18:56 0000 Ideally on a fresh install, the -data ebuild would be triggered to install first, so that -bin can be downloading in the background while -data is installing from the CD :) wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2006-09-28 06:38:15 0000 That is exactly what it does (provided you have USE=cdinstall, anyway) now. Thanks again, Zac!