Bug 4017

Summary:	emerge --pretend net-dialup/pptpd fails
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) <agenkin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	you
Priority:	High
Version:	1.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jan-Frode Myklebust 2002-06-22 06:50:10 UTC

Just did an 'emerge rsync' and then:

# emerge --pretend net-dialup/pptpd

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

Calculating dependencies \
!!! Error: couldn't find match for virtual/pppd in net-dialup/pptpd-1.1.2

I guess this must be a bug.. 'emerging net-dialup/ppp' first fixes it.

Comment 1 Johannes Findeisen 2002-06-23 05:55:05 UTC

if the pppd daemon really should be a virtual, then we have to add the  
following line to the file /etc/make.profile/virtuals (i think):  
  
virtual/pppd		net-dialup/ppp  
  
hope this is the solution...  
  
hanez... :-)

Comment 2 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-23 17:40:12 UTC

Yep, except that the right file seems to be
/usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0/virtuals (/etc/make.profile usually is a symlink).

Thanks.

Comment 3 Johannes Findeisen 2002-06-24 04:07:01 UTC

i know that... the path was shorter this way... ;-) 
 
what about the other profiles? do they need the line too??? i think they also 
must have the line add to the virtuals file. or what happens when ermerging 
pptpd on a ppc or sparc??? 
 
hanez... ;-)