Bug 377687

Summary:	net-misc/iputils: should remove dependency on sys-fs/sysfsutils
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Anthony Basile <blueness>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	377673

Description Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2011-08-04 09:58:47 UTC

sys-fs/sysfsutils is broken and dead upstream.  Dependency on it needs to be
removed so we can remove it from the tree.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2011-08-05 17:17:42 UTC

Okay I looked at the code up to the latest snapshot at

  http://www.linux-ipv6.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=gitroot/iputils.git;a=summary

and arping.c still #include <sysfs/libsysfs.h>, and makes calls/references to sysfs_* in its set_device_broadcast() function.  Looks like we won't be able to drop this dep without some upstream patching.  On the positive side, it does look like the sysfs dependence is localized, and so maybe I can just lift and refresh that code out of libsysfs and submit a patch upstream.

BTW, git clone git://www.linux-ipv6.org/gitroot/iputils and hence iputils-99999999.ebuild is failing ... looks like they're having some (temporary?) problems with their git daemon.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-07 20:10:24 UTC

*iputils-20101006-r1 (07 Aug 2011)

  07 Aug 2011; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
  +files/iputils-20071127-infiniband.patch, +iputils-20101006-r1.ebuild,
  iputils-99999999.ebuild:
  Import Fedora patch to remove sysfsutils depend from arping.c wrt #377687 by
  Anthony Basile