When building gimp-2.10.28, emerge fails due to lacking gegl. But I have gegl-9999 installed, so it should find the dependency and emerge. Instead I get: - Error: missing dependency gegl-0.4 >= 0.4.32 Reproducible: Always
# emerge -s gegl [ Results for search key : gegl ] Searching... * dev-ruby/ruby-gegl Latest version available: 3.4.3 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 3.064 KiB Homepage: https://ruby-gnome2.osdn.jp/ Description: Ruby GEGL bindings License: LGPL-2.1+ * media-libs/gegl Latest version available: 9999 Latest version installed: 9999 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: https://gegl.org/ Description: A graph based image processing framework License: || ( GPL-3+ LGPL-3 )
> But I have gegl-9999 installed What is the date of installation of this live-ebuild?
last install of gegl was April 30 of this year. Hrm. I should update that. Stand by and I'll report if the new one works.
Yes, live ebuild (9999) gets current upstream version at the moment of build time. So rebuild of -9999.ebuild could be required from time to time if it installed as dependency.
… and gimp emerged without error. Thanks for the solution. Would it make sense, then, to have the gimp ebuild force a rebuild of gegl if gegl is a "live" build?
Usually there is no need to use -9999.ebuild dependencies for non -9999.ebuild packages. As far as I know the automatic mechanism to rebuild live ebuilds dependencies isn't provided by portage inside package *.ebuild. Portage provides special set to rebuild "live" packages: > emerge @live-rebuild to rebuild all installed live packages. Or special tool is available in portage tree "app-portage/smart-live-rebuild" ( https://github.com/mgorny/smart-live-rebuild ), that could be useful if you have many live packages.
