Bug 23815 – Dependency strangeness with nvidia-kernel and ac-sources

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Hartley 2003-07-01 09:28:11 UTC]

I have the following unnecessary dependency with the nvidia-kernel ebuild:
[root@... root]$ emerge -pu nvidia-kernel

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5
[ebuild    U ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4363-r2 [1.0.4349-r2]

I have no gentoo-sources ebuild merged on this Dell Inspiron 8500, as I use
ac-sources.  I found if I remove the dependency "virtual/linux-sources" the
ebuild will work just fine without the gentoo-sources requirement.  Help?

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-01 15:43:53 UTC]

use #emerge --inject

[Comment 2 Matt Hartley 2003-07-01 19:00:57 UTC]

While I know that works, it's not exactly a fix.  Why is there a dependency in the first place?

[Comment 3 Kirtis Bakalarczyk 2003-10-19 21:07:00 UTC]

I had a similar problem with the 2.6 kernel.  I upgraded to test8 and portage
insisted that mm-sources-2.6.0_beta7-r1 was a dependancy to nvidia-kernel.
 I just  let it emerge it and went along as usual.  Unfortunately, when I
try to log out and go back to gdm X uses up 96% CPU and displays a couple
pixels at the top left corner; I had to kill -9 it.  

KIRT

[Comment 4 Kirtis Bakalarczyk 2003-10-19 21:07:49 UTC]

I had a similar problem with the 2.6 kernel.  I upgraded to test8 and portage
insisted that mm-sources-2.6.0_beta7-r1 was a dependancy to nvidia-kernel.
 I just  let it emerge it and went along as usual.  Unfortunately, when I
try to log out and go back to gdm X uses up 96% CPU and displays a couple
pixels at the top left corner; I had to kill -9 it.  

KIRT

[Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2003-11-18 08:31:39 UTC]

All kernel ebuilds should now provide virtual/linux-sources, so I'm closing this.