Bug 237596

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-bin depends on app-arch/rpm implicitly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dustin Howett <alaricx>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dustin Howett 2008-09-14 00:26:56 UTC

I attempted to emerge openoffice-bin (2.4.1, I checked and 3.0.0* doesn't either, but I don't know if they use rpms for packaging), and got rather cryptic error messages (premature end of cpio archive, not a bzip2 file, etc), but the unpack "succeeded"; install failed when it couldn't find any .desktop files.

It turns out that I needed to install rpm (<5.0.0, according to one bug, but i didn't have ANY version of rpm)..

Shouldn't the openoffice-bin packages depend on rpm?

Expected Behaviour: openoffice-bin pulls in rpm and installs correctly.

Observed Behaviour: openoffice-bin fails to install with cryptic error messages and never claims that rpm was not found.

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-14 00:43:40 UTC

It doesn't. The ebuild inherits rpm.eclass, which uses rpm2targz to unpack the rpm's. Please provide `emerge --info` and the cryptic output and reopen.

Comment 2 Dustin Howett 2008-09-14 01:51:41 UTC

This was caused by #235290. Sorry for the alarm!