Bug 517252

Summary:	net-analyzer/zabbix should set REQUIRED_USE instead of dying in pkg_setup()
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Mol <mikemol>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alicef, toralf, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Deadline:	2019-11-27

Description Michael Mol 2014-07-16 15:53:33 UTC

When emerging with multiple database USE flags selected globally, the package's dependency requirement isn't rejected at dependency-calculation time, and the build proceeds until portage attempts to build the package itself. At this point, it calls die:

 * 
 * You can't use more than one database type in Zabbix.
 * Select exactly one database type out of these: mysql oracle postgres sqlite
 * 
 * ERROR: net-analyzer/zabbix-2.0.12::gentoo failed (setup phase):
 *   Multiple database types selected.
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *              ebuild.sh, line  93:  Called pkg_setup
 *   zabbix-2.0.12.ebuild, line  88:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                      die "Multiple database types selected."

Rather than calling die to alert the user to a dependency issue, portage should be made aware that the database USE flags are mutually exclusive, so as to avoid potentially building unnecessary dependencies. (And generally wasting time on a failed build.)

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2019-12-13 15:46:53 UTC

it looks fixed in latest versions

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2019-12-13 15:49:10 UTC

*** Bug 575278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***