Bug 31077 – Fluxter prevents world upgrade because fluxbox-0.1.14 does not provide 'virtual/blackbox'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description david.antliff 2003-10-13 17:54:43 UTC]

When attempting to 'emerge -Du world' the following message is displayed:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/blackbox" have been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "x11-misc/fluxter-0.1.0" [ebuild])

!!! Problem with ebuild x11-misc/fluxter-0.1.0
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.


Looking at the fluxter ebuild I see "DEPEND="virtual/blackbox"

Note that fluxbox-0.1.14-rc2 is installed. The fluxbox-0.1.14-r2 ebuild does not provide "PROVIDE="virtual/blackbox" and I believe this is the reason the world upgrade fails.

[Comment 1 david.antliff 2003-10-13 17:55:54 UTC]

Unmerging fluxter, performing 'emerge -Du world' and then re-emerging fluxter
is a viable workaround, however it is inconvenient.

[Comment 2 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-10-14 13:39:44 UTC]

fixed in cvs

[Comment 3 david.antliff 2003-10-20 12:52:36 UTC]

This doesn't appear to actually be fixed. I can see the change in the ebuild,
but the presence of 'fluxter' still prevents 'emerge -u world'. I have checked
/var/cache/edb/virtuals:

virtual/blackbox x11-wm/kahakai x11-wm/blackbox x11-wm/fluxbox

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-10-20 13:41:32 UTC]

Try to shift the kahakai entry to the end of the line, it's a portage problem.

[Comment 5 david.antliff 2003-10-20 14:10:41 UTC]

Thankyou - this worked around the problem. This is still a bug in my opinion
however - is it recorded?

[Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-12-23 23:14:37 UTC]

This is fixed in CVS and ~arch, I believe. There is another bug open for this.