| Summary: | =net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.4 blocks <wireshark-1.6.0_rc1 | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Stefan Zwanenburg <stefanhetzwaantje> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Blocks are set by developers, and for good reasons. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 394479 *** > Blocks are set by developers, and for good reasons.
Alright, I see what the problem is, and why this block was put in place. There's no need to be condescending about it (if it is a result of me saying that the solution "seems rather silly", then I apologize). All I could see was that a package was blocking an earlier version of itself, which results in not being able to install this package unless I remove the earlier version first.
So now I come to the same conclusion as you did in the other bug report: is there no solution that is more elegant? Also, it'd be awesome if meanwhile, a useful message would come up when this block happens. This could be done by replacing the hard block with a pkg_pretend which checks for the prior version (using has_version).
Either way, I would suggest some way of letting users know what is up. Perhaps with a news item?
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=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.4 blocks <wireshark-1.6.0_rc1, which seems rather silly, as there are no slots for the wireshark package. This results in the following message (if there's a version of wireshark smaller than 1.6.0_rc1 already installed): [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.4 [1.4.9] USE="caps gtk ipv6 pcap ssl zlib -adns -ares -doc -doc-pdf -gcrypt -geoip -kerberos -lua -portaudio -profile -python (-selinux) -smi -threads" 20,962 kB [blocks B ] <net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.0_rc1 ("<net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.0_rc1" is blocking net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.4) The offending line in the wireshark-1.6.4.ebuild is the following (line #50, in the $DEPEND variable definition): !!<net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.0_rc1" Reproducible: Always