iputils has "doc" USE flag, but unconditionally depends on: BDEPEND=" app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.2 app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5 app-text/docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets dev-libs/libxslt which are used only for documentation building. This should be replaced with: BDEPEND=" doc? ( app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.2 app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5 app-text/docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets dev-libs/libxslt )
That's my doing. Those deps are needed to build the man pages. commit 31dcb27958c21cfb89f1dc3d84fa67861d230d9f Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Feb 20 13:23:47 2023 -0500 net-misc/iputils: simplify manpage handling Always build manpages from source instead of hacking in prebuilt copies from an auxiliary tarball. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/895160 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Please ask upstream to add man pages to their dist tarballs.
Ok, I confirm my mistake. These dependencies are required for building man pages. One thing bothers me though: I'm building iputils using FEATURES="noman". Isn't there some way to transmit this setting to ebuild and base dependencies on it (e.g. in a similar way as FEATURES="test" does work)? It's of no use to build dependencies and then man pages only to have man pages removed from installation in last step. As far as I understand FEATURES shouldn't/can't be used directly inside ebuilds. It seems wasteful to have e.g. 50MB of app-text/docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets installed in Docker image with FEATURES="noman" set, as a result of adding 180KB iputils package - when the man pages are finally not installed anyway.
(In reply to Piotr Michalczyk from comment #3) I would suggest using a binhost if you are deploying Gentoo in containers. You can bypass all of the build-time deps that way, including the docbook stuff.
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #4) Thank you for hint. I'm not familiar with 'binhost' configuration yet and I will need to check if it fits my requirements. As a quick workaround I'm going to put man-related packages into package.provided and avoid installing them. At least iputils seem to compile fine even when some dependencies listen in ebuild are not installed.
I filed https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/479, let's see where it goes.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #6) > I filed https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/479, let's see where it > goes. Upstream are going to product doc tarballs for the next release onwards! \o/
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=347e0109b475a12b97e91ed8948cf6aaf9db671f commit 347e0109b475a12b97e91ed8948cf6aaf9db671f Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-12-23 19:00:28 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-12-23 19:00:28 +0000 net-misc/iputils: add 20231222 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908817 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> net-misc/iputils/Manifest | 1 + net-misc/iputils/iputils-20231222.ebuild | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net-misc/iputils/iputils-99999999.ebuild | 26 ++++-- 3 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=91046f11889af3d05a54ba858e5b85506e121d96 commit 91046f11889af3d05a54ba858e5b85506e121d96 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-10-03 06:59:46 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-10-03 07:04:47 +0000 net-misc/iputils: add 20240905 This also essentially reverts commit 8fd3bbe19eb695fb5ca88375e4d814070ab33639 (brings back the doc/man page logic as it's now in an upstream release). Includes a patch from Eli (https://github.com/iputils/iputils/pull/556). Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908817 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/920901 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> net-misc/iputils/Manifest | 1 + .../iputils/files/iputils-20240905-man-pages.patch | 30 +++++ net-misc/iputils/iputils-20240905.ebuild | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++ net-misc/iputils/iputils-99999999.ebuild | 26 ++-- 4 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
