Emerging spamassassin fails because it can't find the version of HTML-Parser it needs. This looks like a missing/incorrect dependency to me. The specific version of HTML-Parser mentioned isn't in portage. >>> Emerging (28 of 28) mail-filter/spamassassin-3.2.3 to / * Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/spamassassin-3.2.3/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/spamassassin-3.2.3/work/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3 ... * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker What email address or URL should be used in the suspected-spam report text for users who want more information on your filter installation? (In particular, ISPs should change this to a local Postmaster contact) default text: [the administrator of that system] the administrator of that system NOTE: settings for "make test" are now controlled using "t/config.dist". See that file if you wish to customise what tests are run, and how. checking module dependencies and their versions... *************************************************************************** ERROR: the required HTML::Parser (version 3.43) module is not installed. at lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util/DependencyInfo.pm line 293. HTML is used for an ever-increasing amount of email so this dependency is unavoidable. Run "perldoc -q html" for additional information. *************************************************************************** NOTE: the optional Mail::SPF module is not installed. Used to check DNS Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records to fight email address forgery and make it easier to identify spams. (This is preferred over Mail::SPF::Query.) *************************************************************************** NOTE: the optional Razor2 (version 2.61) module is not installed. Used to check message signatures against Vipul's Razor collaborative filtering network. Razor has a large number of dependencies on CPAN modules. Feel free to skip installing it, if this makes you nervous; SpamAssassin will still work well without it. More info on installing and using Razor can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingRazor . *************************************************************************** NOTE: the optional Mail::DomainKeys module is not installed. If this module is installed, and you enable the DomainKeys plugin, SpamAssassin will perform Domain Key lookups when Domain Key information is present in the message headers. (Note that new versions of Mail::DKIM render this module superfluous.) *************************************************************************** NOTE: the optional Mail::DKIM module is not installed. If this module is installed, and you enable the DKIM plugin, SpamAssassin will perform DKIM lookups when a DKIM-Signature header is present in the message headers. (New versions of this module support both Domain Keys and DKIM, rendering Mail::DomainKeys obsolete.) *************************************************************************** NOTE: the optional Encode::Detect module is not installed. If you plan to use the normalize_charset config setting to detect charsets and convert them into Unicode, you will need to install this module. REQUIRED module missing: HTML::Parser optional module missing: Mail::SPF optional module missing: Razor2 optional module missing: Mail::DomainKeys optional module missing: Mail::DKIM optional module missing: Encode::Detect warning: some functionality may not be available, please read the above report before continuing! * * ERROR: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.2.3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2370: Called perl-module_src_prep * environment, line 2072: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * echo "$pm_echovar" | perl Makefile.PL ${myconf} INSTALLMAN3DIR='none' PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor DESTDIR=${D} || die "Unable to build! (are you using USE=\"build\"?)"; * The die message: * Unable to build! (are you using USE="build"?) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/mail-filter:spamassassin-3.2.3:20080713-183625.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/spamassassin-3.2.3/temp/environment'. # eix HTML-Parser [I] dev-perl/HTML-Parser Available versions: 3.48 ~3.54 3.55 3.56 {unicode} Installed versions: 3.56(15:39:16 09/29/07)(unicode) Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser-3.56/ Description: Parse <HEAD> section of HTML documents Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.21-xen x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-xen x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Timestamp of tree: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:00:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/share/X11/xkb" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask -vat -kn --with-bdeps=y --alphabetical" FEATURES="buildpkg collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/mnt/portage/local/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 bash-completion bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran iconv ipv6 isdnlog ithreads midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd threads unicode vhosts x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I just tried 3.2.4 and am getting the same message. I've tried perl-cleaner modules, but it reports nothing to do.
OK. Not sure what's going on, but on a whim I re-emerged HTML-Parser manually (after trying "revdep-rebuild" and "perl-cleaner all") and it works now. Any idea what would cause this and how to detect it in future?
(In reply to comment #2) > Any idea what would cause this and how to detect it in future? Since you re-emerged the perl package, which was problematic, the system state to be able to evaluate, if it's a PEBKAC issue or a perl-cleaner bug maybe, is gone. In the latter case there is a good chance someone else will file face the problem and file another bug. In general the various update scripts are (currently needed and acceptable) prototypic hacks, working around a missing Portage rebuild/plugin infrastrusture. With regards to perl-cleaner, the script hasn't been 100% reliable for me in the past and has known issues, as e.g. highlighted by scons rebuild problem.
