Bug 33723 – Ethereal should respect adns USE flag

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-11-17 21:10:03 UTC]

Ethereal (as of 0.9.16) does not recognize the adns USE flag.  It will not try
to pull it in if not installed, but if installed it will use the adns library.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  unmerge adns (if merged)
2.  emerge ethereal
3.  Check help/about
4.  Notice ADNS support missing
5.  emerge adns
6.  emerge ethereal
7.  check help/about again; ADNS now enabled

Actual Results:  
Unable to use ADNS, which is very useful for large-scale sniffs


ortage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r8)
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System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1200MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde gnome libg++ mad
mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib
gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib svga ggi X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww
ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl acpi acpi4linux adns
alsa bindist cdr dnd doc dvd ethereal evo fam fax freetype gb geoip gtkhtml imap
ipv6 java junit ldap maildir mbox mozilla offensive pcap pcmcia pnp postgres
radeon samba snmp tcltk threads transparent-proxy usb vim-with-x"

Note that I have removed ~x86 from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.  It was a temporary thing
for ethereal-0.9.16

[Comment 1 Martin Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 20:27:01 UTC]

Here is a proposed diff to ethereal-0.9.16.ebuild (note that I am brand new to ebuilds; this may or may not work:

22d21
<       adns? ( net-libs/adns-1.0 )
53d51
<       use adns || myconf="${myconf} --without-adns"

[Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 22:56:05 UTC]

There is nothing like an adns USE flag. Perhaps there should be one.

[Comment 3 Martin Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-11-22 06:25:50 UTC]

My system has an adns use flag.  I am relatively new to portage; how can I determine how it got there?

[Comment 4 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-11-23 23:19:10 UTC]

Asking the other way round - why do you think you have one?
Please check the $PORTDIR/profiles/use.desc file - this is the official list of USE flags, and I can't find adns there. See also http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml

[Comment 5 Martin Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 16:25:54 UTC]

Aha!  From use.local.desc:

dev-libs/liboop:adns - enable adns support

So, that explains that.

Sorry for the confusion...I like the idea of having a proper adns flag though.

[Comment 6 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 23:34:52 UTC]

Since there are two programs now which could use it, we should maybe make this global.

[Comment 7 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-12-01 02:41:31 UTC]

Fixed this, thanks for the suggestion.