Bug 176892

Summary:	dev-db/libpq-8.2.4 reslot to 5?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Graham Murray <gmurray>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	kentnl
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Graham Murray 2007-05-03 08:09:42 UTC

libpq is already slotted and dev-db/libpq-8.2.4 installs libpq.so.5. Therefore the upgrade requires a rebuild (which revdep-rebuild finds) of all installed packages using libpq. If libpq-8.2.4 were placed in slot 5, existing client applications would not need to be immediately rebuilt but continue to use libpq.so.4 and will still communicate with the server running 8.2.x.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-03 08:30:25 UTC

Slotted postgresql won't get into the tree now. Needs more testing and work in the overlay.

Comment 2 Matt Michalowski 2007-05-08 00:10:22 UTC

Related to this,

dev-dev/libpq-8.2.4 installs /usr/lib/libpq-5.a, but installs a symlink libpq.a -> libpq-${SLOT}.a, ie. in this case libpq-4.a which doesn't exist.

Comment 3 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-01 07:36:57 UTC

after a friend lamenting to me the exact same problem I decided I would just stop using pdns to get around, I decided to look into the problem a bit further. 

 cat /usr/portage/dev-db/libpq/libpq-8.2.4.ebuild

<--snip-->
SLOT="4"
<--snip-->
src_install() {
<--snip-->
        dosym libpq-${SLOT}.a /usr/$(get_libdir)/libpq.a
<--snip-->

file /usr/lib/libpq.a
/usr/lib/libpq.a: broken symbolic link to `libpq-4.a'

qlist libpq | grep "\/libpq\...."
/usr/lib/libpq.so.5.0
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libpq.so.5.0.debug
/usr/lib/libpq.so.5

hmm. No libpq-4. funny that. 


<pkgmetadata>
        <herd>postgresql</herd>
</pkgmetadata>

Assign Plz ? 

THeres about 3 different easy ways to get around this problem of course ;) Just needs somebody with commit rights to choose which is most sane and get it done :)

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-01 07:41:30 UTC

This bug is about slotted postgresql; if you have issues with libpq, file a *new* bug please. Thanks.

Comment 5 Aaron W. Swenson gentoo-dev

2011-05-16 11:15:05 UTC

Doesn't get any later than this. Package no longer exists.