| Summary: | app-backup/backintime-0.9.26-r1: build failure, missing dependencies, broken runtime | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | nm (RETIRED) <nightmorph> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) <bangert> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
yes - i'd like to get the rdeps for gnome perfect as well. thanks for the report. i've added gnome-session, gnome-vfs-python and gnome-python. does that help? thanks (In reply to comment #1) > yes - i'd like to get the rdeps for gnome perfect as well. thanks for the > report. i've added gnome-session, gnome-vfs-python and gnome-python. > > does that help? > thanks > I can't really say -- that pulls in so many Gnome dependencies that it completely hoses my Xfce desktop. I was originally interested in backintime because it *seemed* desktop-neutral, not needing Gnome. Since that is no longer the case, I'm no longer interested in installing it. |
I run a pure Xfce system, so I was delighted to see that not only was backintime available in Portage, it had no additional dependencies for the gtk+ version. However, I was wrong. Here's what happens if you try to build it on a pure Xfce system with +gnome: ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 which: no gnome-session in (/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2) ERROR: Can't find GNOME ! * * ERROR: app-backup/backintime-0.9.26-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_configure * environment, line 2326: Called econf * ebuild.sh, line 534: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * The die message: * econf failed ---- This is the error that caused the build to fail for me. Running "emerge gnome-session" (which thankfully requires no additional dependencies) and then re-running "emerge backintime" lets the package build. So gnome-session is a builddep required if the "gnome" USE flag is activated. However, it's not enough to have it build. There are also some missing library dependencies, probably on gnome-python-foo or gnome-python-desktop-foo libraries. It dies at runtime since these libraries are not installed. Here's what happens when I run backintime-gnome from the command line: $ backintime-gnome Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backintime/gnome/app.py", line 34, in <module> import gnome ImportError: No module named gnome ----- So I looked at that app.py file. There's a whole MESS of gnome python crap that it requires, including some seriously deprecated code, like gnome-vfs-python. These are the Gentoo package names that contain the required modules: notify-python gnome-vfs-python gnome-python (some variant of it) . . . long story short, the package both fails to build and fails to run. That's two blockers for the price of one. (I assume the "threading" module is built-in to python)