Bug 164584 – net-misc/nxserver-freenx-0.5.0-r1 requires =net-misc/nxclient-1.5* creating issues when upgrading to net-misc/nxclient-2.1.0

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SI Reasoning 2007-01-30 18:44:24 UTC]

I have been having a circular problem with nxclient. I am prompted to upgrade it to net-misc/nxclient-2.1.0 when net-misc/nxclient-1.5.0-r5 is installed, and then prompted to downgrade when net-misc/nxclient-2.1.0 is installed. I think that I have traced it to a requirement in net-misc/nxserver-freenx-0.5.0-r1 that seems to require =net-misc/nxclient-1.5*. The following error message led me to this conclusion:

Calculating world dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=net-misc/nxclient-1.5*" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- net-misc/nxclient-1.5.0-r5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "net-misc/nxserver-freenx-0.5.0-r1" [ebuild])


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Bernard Cafarelli 2007-01-30 19:14:39 UTC]

Yes, freenx 0.5 only works with nxclient 1.5, see bug #149298.

So you have to either mask nxclient 2.1, patch freenx 0.5 or upgrade to freenx 0.6

[Comment 2 SI Reasoning 2007-01-30 19:48:41 UTC]

I have been able to successfully connect to my gentoo server running freenx 0.5 from another computer running Nomachine's nxclient-2.1.0-11. It does not properly remove the session from the list even after logging off, however.

[Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli 2007-01-30 20:02:46 UTC]

Even with the backingstore patch from bug #155063? (looks like the same as in #149298, btw)

That one had worked for me when I was using 0.5

[Comment 4 Bernard Cafarelli 2007-03-21 11:56:38 UTC]

nxserver-freenx-0.6.0 is now in CVS, with NX 2.x support, so the nxclient-1.5-only dep was removed