96878 – pam-0.77-r6 does not provide virtual/pam

Bug 96878 - pam-0.77-r6 does not provide virtual/pam

Summary: pam-0.77-r6 does not provide virtual/pam

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Other

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-06-23 09:15 UTC by cazzantonio
Modified:	2005-07-02 03:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description cazzantonio 2005-06-23 09:15:32 UTC

pam-0.77-r6 does not provide virtual/pam, which is reqired by
app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-23 09:25:38 UTC

No, it is not required. See the ebuild:

<snip>
DEPEND="pam? ( || ( virtual/pam sys-libs/pam ) )
</snip>

Only >=0.78 provides virtual/pam, see sys-libs/pam ChangeLog.

Comment 2 Peter Hyman 2005-07-02 03:31:53 UTC

I noticed this too with xscreensaver-4.22 (~x86) which, unlike 4.21 (x86) uses
virtual/pam. If I added pam-0.78 to package.keywords, it then required a new
version of cracklib, also in testing to be emerged. I stopped right there, not
wanting too many testing packages. So, my workaround was to add pam-0.78 to
package.provided. This way, xscreensaver thinks it has what it needs without my
needing to add an indeterminate number of packages to package.keywords to
satisfy pam-0.78's dependencies. I can then wait for pam to catch up and be
stable, at which point all will be well again. JM2C, HTH.