Bug 365211 – virtual/python has be removed but dev-libs/boost still requires it

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Harris Landgarten 2011-04-28 15:35:43 UTC]

$ qdepends boost
dev-libs/boost-1.41.0-r3: sys-libs/zlib virtual/python !!<=dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 >=app-admin/eselect-boost-0.3 dev-util/boost-build:1.41 >=app-admin/eselect-python-20091230

sudo cave resolve boost
Resolving: 1 stepscave@1304004667: [WARNING package_database.ambiguous_name] In thread ID '14034':
  ... In program cave resolve boost:
  ... When adding targets from commandline:
  ... When parsing user package dep spec 'boost':
  ... When parsing generic package dep spec 'boost':
  ... When disambiguating package name 'boost':
  ... Package name 'boost' is ambiguous, assuming you meant 'dev-libs/boost' (candidates were 'cacti-plugins/boost', 'dev-libs/boost')
Done: 3260 steps               

These are the actions I will take, in order:

r   dev-libs/boost:1.42::gentoo 1.42.0-r2 to ::installed replacing 1.42.0-r2 [cycle 1]
    -debug -doc eselect -icu -mpi python -static-libs -tools (-test) build_options: -optional_tests symbols=split -trace -preserve_work
    Reasons: target, !!<=dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 from dev-libs/boost, !<dev-libs/boost-1.34.0 from dev-util/boost-build
    Self dependent (already met)

Total: 1 reinstalls

I encountered the following errors:

!   virtual/python
    Reasons: dev-libs/boost
    Unsuitable candidates:
      * Found no packages for resolvent virtual/python:(unknown)::(install_to_slash)



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2011-04-28 15:59:33 UTC]

Huh?

.../dev-libs/boost %% grep virtual/python *
ChangeLog:  Depend on dev-lang/python because virtual/python will go away, bug 358849.

[Comment 2 Harris Landgarten 2011-04-28 16:14:22 UTC]

Hopefully changes will hit the tree soon as 

cave resolve world -c 

is stuck on the error.

$ sudo cave resolve world -c
Done: 6939 steps               

These are the actions I will take, in order:

(nothing to do)

I encountered the following errors:

!   virtual/python
    Reasons: dev-libs/boost
    Unsuitable candidates:
      * Found no packages for resolvent virtual/python:(unknown)::(install_to_slash)

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-04-28 16:33:55 UTC]

Paludis is propably being stupid and doesn't understand dependency changes without revision bumps.   
It's perfectly valid to change deps without revbumps.
I suggest you file an upstream paludis bug for this.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2011-04-28 18:01:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hopefully changes will hit the tree soon as 
> 
> cave resolve world -c 
> 
> is stuck on the error.

By my comment in comment #1, I implied that the changes hit the tree on April 5th, 2011. I agree with comment #3, there is nothing to fix in the portage tree and it looks like a paludis bug.