Bug 14278 – development-sources-2.5.59-r{1,2} depend on ~arch-masked ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Olav Kolbu 2003-01-21 03:13:46 UTC]

The ebuilds development-sources-2.5.59-r1 and r2 both depend on the ~arch-masked
module-init-tools ebuilds. Therefore, emerge bombs for people running
development-sources but without the ~arch (i.e. ~x86) keyword set:

# emerge --update --pretend world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">sys-apps/module-init-tools-0.9.8" have been
masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "sys-kernel/development-sources-2.5.59-r2" [ebuild])

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-01-21 03:18:57 UTC]

any reason the kernels are depending on this package ? 
they shouldnt be ... 

[Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-01-21 09:59:59 UTC]

without module-init-tools you cannot use modules on kernels greater than
2.5.45... it is therefore a semi-valid rdepend...

[Comment 3 Seth Chandler 2003-01-22 07:14:05 UTC]

while this is a semi valid rdepend, module-init-tools is a kind of invasive
package.  It overwrites (so that it is still usable) modutils, which is not
something that i am a big fan of.  I would rather (right now) put an
einfo/ewarning message and tell them to install it if they use modules....

[Comment 4 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-01-22 08:16:31 UTC]

agreed... I'll remove that rdepend for the time being. after class today... *runs*

[Comment 5 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 20:18:46 UTC]

*shrug* deal with it if it isn't already fixed...