Bug 30998 – rdiff-backup is missing dependency

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maik Schreiber 2003-10-12 15:35:56 UTC]

net-misc/rdiff-backup is missing a dependency on net-libs/librsync. Although there is a RDEPEND=">=net-libs/librsync-0.9.6", this is not sufficient. rdiff-backup will fail to install correctly when librsync is not installed before.

Please add DEPEND="${RDEPEND}", thanks.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-10-12 23:00:31 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30987 ***

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-10-13 01:01:10 UTC]

different problem

[Comment 3 Maik Schreiber 2003-10-13 10:59:29 UTC]

Okay, so please do the following change:

Remove the RDEPEND=">=net-libs/librsync-0.9.6" line and replace it with the
following:

DEPEND=">=net-libs/librsync-0.9.6"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

This should do the trick.

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-13 11:59:03 UTC]

this error is caused by: inherit distutils

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-13 11:59:36 UTC]

RDEPEND=">=net-libs/librsync-0.9.6"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
doesn't help

if i remove inherit distutils, it works
any ideas ?

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-15 11:53:53 UTC]

adding distutils maintainer

[Comment 7 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-10-15 16:17:16 UTC]

put inherit distutils at the top of the ebuild 

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-16 13:44:17 UTC]

you are right, moving it to the top works