Bug 272386 – app-admin/fam needs rpcbind as alternative for portmap

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Neil 2009-06-03 08:52:49 UTC]

I get this message on attempting to emerge -uDNa @world @system on my Dell Latitude X300

Bit of digging reveals....

USE="fam" is set in the profile ()

dev-libs/glib has a dependency on virtual/fam

I had app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r4 installed, and this pulls in ner-nds/portmap-6.0 which blocks net-nfs/nfs-utils-1.1.6-r1 and net-nfs/nfs-utils/-1.2.0

All very strange as on my desktop I have the same USE flags and no conflict?  Why is this (see below)?



Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
emerge -C app-admin/fam && emerge app-admin/gamin && emerge -uDNa @world


Turns out on my desktop the virtual/fam dependency of dev-libs/glib is fulfilled by app-admin/gamin, whereas (as per above) on the laptop its app-admin/fam.

Thus the following resolved the blockage...

emerge -C app-admin/fam && emerge app-admin/gamin && emerge -uDNa @world @system

I'm not sure this is the "correct" way of solving this, because the dependency of dev-libs/glib is for virtual/fam, so anything that fulfils that (i.e. app-admin/fam OR app-admin/gamin) shouldn't cause any blocks (although I'm sure there _is_ a good reason why net-nds/portmap-6.0 blocks net-nfs/nfs-utils)

[Comment 1 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-06-03 19:31:17 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 272363 ***

[Comment 2 Neil 2009-06-04 07:00:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 272363 ***
> 

Ultimately the same problem (i.e. virtual/fam dependency isn't sufficiently fulfilled), but the solution on the 272363 doesn't help resolve this problem as far as I can tell, because all its done is provide a new ebuild for net-nds/ypbind.

This bug therefore persists and for this reason I have reopened it.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-06-05 05:55:47 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.