Bug 39705 – subversion upgrade is being blocked

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description armin 2004-01-28 16:23:15 UTC]

I use subverion 0.35.1 and python. python got upgraded by 'emerge -u world'.
autoconf too ...
After the python upgrade a script was run to reemerge python dependend
packages, then subversion got reemerged:

[blocks B     ] =sys-devel/autoconf-2.58* (from pkg dev-util/subversion-0.35.1)
[ebuild   R   ] dev-util/subversion-0.35.1

checking the versions:

root # qpkg -i -I | grep auto
...
sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 *

root # autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13

van root # autoconf
autoconf       autoconf-2.13  autoconf-2.58

van root # WANT_AUTOCONF="2.13" USE="apache2 -apache" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p subversion

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] =sys-devel/autoconf-2.58* (from pkg dev-util/subversion-0.35.1)
[ebuild   R   ] dev-util/subversion-0.35.1

so the problem is that portage *thinks* just 2.58 is installed, but 2.13 is
installed too ...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge python 2.2.3-r5
2. emerge subversion 0.35.1
3. emerge python 2.3.3

Actual Results:  
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] =sys-devel/autoconf-2.58* (from pkg dev-util/subversion-0.35.1)
[ebuild   R   ] dev-util/subversion-0.35.1

Expected Results:  
reemerge of subversion

Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.19-49um)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-49um i686
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home/http /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib
innodb java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline sdl slang
spell ssl tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Appendix:

I know subversion is masked, but it is a very important package.

The configure script tries to find files outside the sandbox,
but I don't see why this could not be patched... 

I unfortunately don't speak autoconf/make, but on my other system 
the configure script does not find the right berkeley db, so it is 
definitely not very good ...

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-01-29 01:16:37 UTC]

Just first update autoconf to 2.59 and subversion possibly to 0.37.0, after that run the updater. The autoconf-2.13 package should not be installed at all as the later autoconf's provide this. Subverion needs a new autoconf so 2.13 would not work anyway.