Bug 362849

Summary:	python.eclass: binpkg dependency problem
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Victor Mataré <vmatare+gbug>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Victor Mataré 2011-04-10 12:23:58 UTC

When installing pygtksourceview from a binpkg, I get:

ERROR: dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1 failed (setup phase):
 *   dev-lang/python:2.7 is not installed

In the ebuild I see:

PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.6"

So I guess it's the eclass that somehow checks which version the pkg has been built against (which in my case is 2.7) and then bails out. However, this obviously breaks installation since python:2.7 is not in RDEPEND. So I'd have to manually upgrade to python:2.7 beforehand, and then proceed with the other updates. This probably applies to other packages, too. Is there some way of fixing this? I can add a quirk for this in my deployment scripts, but of course fixing these things in portage is the better way to go...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-10 14:11:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> So I guess it's the eclass that somehow checks which version the pkg has been
> built against (which in my case is 2.7) and then bails out.

Yes. It's expected.
Printing error message is better than installation of a non-working package.