Bug 34026 – The ebuild "beecrypt" blocks "rpm" of which it is a dependancy

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description thegarbageman 2003-11-21 08:40:55 UTC]

The ebuild 'app-arch/rpm-4.2.1.ebuild' depends on '>=dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1'
The ebuild 'dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1' depends on '!<app-arch/rpm-4.2.1' (blocks)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -p rpm

Actual Results:  
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
                                                                               
                                              
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] <app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 (from pkg dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1)
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1
[ebuild     U ] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 [4.2_pre069]
                                                                               
                                              


Expected Results:  
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
                                                                               
                                              
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1
[ebuild     U ] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 [4.2_pre069]
                                                                               
                                              


Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-ck2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-ck2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi
g /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/init.d /etc/make.globals /etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/ge
ntoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub
/gentoo http://212.219.247.16/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://mirror/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss crypt cups foomaticdb gif jpeg mad mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png spel
l truetype xml2 xmms zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline svga mysql X sdl tcpd
pam libwww ssl python imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl ldap cdr acpi acpi4linux
dga dillo dnd emacs emacs-w3 gtk2 gtkhtml imap java javascript jbig lcms maildir
 mbox mcal mmx mozilla neXt pic ppds samba sasl sse tiff usb wmf -apm -arts -avi
 -encode -gpm -kde -gnome -libg++ -mikmod -qt -quicktime -xv -perl -esd"

[Comment 1 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) 2003-11-21 12:01:33 UTC]

so do emerge -C rpm && emerge rpm

This is correct, beecrypt only blocks the old rpm, not the new one.
!<app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 is used not !<=app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 ( which would be the bug)

This is the intended result, portage just cannot handle it automatically.
Blocking ebuilds which provide the same files is standard practice.

[Comment 2 thegarbageman 2003-11-21 12:16:29 UTC]

Aha.  Understood.  It might be helpful for me to mention that my confusion arose because I did not notice the "<" symbol, on the line notifying me of the "block", and I thought rpm-4.2.1 was being blocked.  Perhaps it would be helpful if portage displayed each affected package instead:

[blocks B     ] app-arch/rpm-4.2_pre069 (from pkg dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1)

instead of:

[blocks B     ] <app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 (from pkg dev-libs/beecrypt-3.1.0-r1)

Just a thought.  Thanks for your help.