Bug 354003 – app-benchmarks/phoronix-test-suite-2.8.1-r1: RDEPEND makes equery throw portage exception. Invalid dependency?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sebastian Pipping 2011-02-07 19:00:43 UTC]

Is this a valid dependency?

  >=dev-lang/php-5.2[cli,curl,gd,posix,pcntl,pcre(+),truetype]

What's "pcre(+)"?

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[Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping 2011-02-07 19:01:12 UTC]

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[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2011-02-07 21:28:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> What's "pcre(+)"?

That's a valid "USE dependency default", which is new feature in EAPI 4. There's some documentation here:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi-4-metadata-dependencies-use-defaults
http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/ebuild.5.html

So, the problem is rooted either in gentoolkit or portage.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-02-07 21:31:49 UTC]

The gentoolkit code is using the old paren_reduce() function, which doesn't support EAPI 4. Portage doesn't use this function anymore, since the functionality has been integrated into the use_reduce() function in >=portage-2.1.9.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2011-02-07 22:01:30 UTC]

This should fix portage's paren_reduce function to work with EAPI 4:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=8735222b77e66850213e2aa6a7ea48e744ba0d4f

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2011-02-08 01:36:44 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.38 and 2.2.0_alpha22.

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2011-06-24 00:09:33 UTC]

*** Bug 372529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***