The cron.eclass has an RDEPEND that blocks all cron daemon installations. This makes it not work on paludis and other tools that honors the dependency. Maybe it would be better to keep such information in the ebuild of the packages, since some of them can actually be installed in parallel with others. (Such as fcron which does not install a crontab command and keeps its files in seperate directories (if you remove running of /etc/cron.daily and such).
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/cron.eclass,v Working file: cron.eclass head: 1.13 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 14; selected revisions: 14 description: ---------------------------- revision 1.13 date: 2011-04-20 19:49:19 +0200; author: ulm; state: Exp; lines: +7 -5; commitid: 3c24daf1c454567; Don't PROVIDE virtual/cron, bug 360109. Replace blocker against virtual/cron by explicit blockers against packages. ----------------------------
Shouldn't be a problem according to PMS, which says in section 9.2.5.2, <http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-830009.2.5>: "Blocks on the ebuild itself do not count." Could you please post the concrete error message that you get from the package manager? Which cron package(s) are installed on your system?
This is on a newly installed system (from stage3) so there should not be any other cron packages installed. I will however double check that now, just in case. The output from paludis is: # cave resolve fcron Done: 317 steps These are the actions I will take, in order: (nothing to do) I encountered the following errors: ! sys-process/fcron Reasons: target, !sys-process/fcron from sys-process/fcron Unsuitable candidates: * sys-process/fcron-3.0.5-r2:0::gentoo Did not meet !sys-process/fcron, use existing if possible, installing to / from !sys-process/fcron from sys-process/fcron * sys-process/fcron-3.0.6-r1:0::gentoo Did not meet !sys-process/fcron, use existing if possible, installing to / from !sys-process/fcron from sys-process/fcron * sys-process/fcron-3.0.6-r2:0::gentoo Did not meet !sys-process/fcron, use existing if possible, installing to / from !sys-process/fcron from sys-process/fcron
All the packages blocked in cron.eclass blocks themselves on paludis. Also no installed ebuild inherits the cron eclass.
revision 1.14 date: 2011-04-26 13:37:37 +0200; author: ulm; state: Exp; lines: +5 -7; commitid: 22164db6ae804567; Avoid self-blocker to work around a problem in paludis, bug 364799.
*** Bug 365455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
