Bug 101862 – emerge FlowScan fail with no rrdtool

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Xavier "xavtoo" Guerin 2005-08-09 07:16:03 UTC]

While merging FlowScan emerge check if rrdtool version is not 1.2. But if
rrdtool is not installed, emerge fail at configure because it doesn't find rrdtool.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -C rrdtool (optional, to make sure rrdtool isn't installed)
2.emerge FlowScan
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge fail while configure.



Expected Results:  
Merging FlowScan without asking for rrdtool.

I think problem is due to the DEPEND clause:
"        !=net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2*"
If no rrdtool emerge would not merge rrdtool and then it fails. 

So I try this workaround:
emerge "<rrdtool-1.2*" FlowScan
and it works well.

I think we just need to replace "!=" by "<" to close this bug.

[Comment 1 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-08-09 07:45:19 UTC]

Created attachment 65533 [details, diff]
FlowScan-1.006-r1.ebuild.diff

[Comment 2 Xavier "xavtoo" Guerin 2005-08-10 01:47:29 UTC]

Created attachment 65582 [details, diff]
patch for FlowScan ebuid

IMHO We can't leave the line "!=rrdtool-1.2*" in RDEPEND and DEPEND to solve
our problem. First, it's useless since its implied by "<rrdtool-1.2*". Second
it doesn't force portage to merge rrdtool. 
Removing this line shouldn't cause any trouble and it's far more easy to read
and maintain.

[Comment 3 Benjamin Smee (strerror) (RETIRED) 2005-08-11 06:48:05 UTC]

Thanks for reporting. I had fixed in my local version but never moved it onto
CVS :( Let me know if any more problems.

[Comment 4 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-08-12 17:39:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> First, it's useless since its implied by "<rrdtool-1.2*".

It is not useless. If you add the block, it won't merge unless you manually
unmerge rrdtool-1.2.x.
The way things were left, rrdtool will receive a forced downgrade if the user
has a 1.2.x version.

Also, we should probably work on SLOTting rrdtool since some programs work with
1.0.x and some with 1.2.x.