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Bug 53260

Summary: kismet-3.0.1-r1 fails + doesn't emerge ethereal if useflag set.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Roman Gaufman <hackeron>
Component: [OLD] ServerAssignee: Peter Johanson (RETIRED) <latexer>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mobile+disabled
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
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Description Roman Gaufman 2004-06-07 17:04:55 UTC
laptop config-archive # emerge -vp kismet && emerge kismet

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/kismet-3.0.1-r1  +acpi +ethereal -gps  0 kB 

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-wireless/kismet-3.0.1-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) kismet-3.0.1.tar.gz

!!! No message digest entry found for file "ethereal-0.9.13.tar.bz2."
!!! Most likely a temporary problem. Try 'emerge sync' again later.
!!! If you are certain of the authenticity of the file then you may type
!!! the following to generate a new digest:
!!!   ebuild /usr/portage/category/package/package-version.ebuild digest
Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-26 02:56:44 UTC
Is this problem still present with net-wireless/kismet-2004.10.1?
Comment 2 Roman Gaufman 2004-10-26 04:01:39 UTC
It certainly seems to:

server Downloads # USE="ethereal" emerge -vp kismet

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-27_pre26  +nls 178 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/kismet-3.0.1-r1  -acpi +ethereal -gps 4,348 kB

Total size of downloads: 4,527 kB

server Downloads # emerge -vp ethereal

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.6  -adns -debug -gtk +gtk2 -ipv6 -snmp +ssl 4,928 kB

Total size of downloads: 4,928 kB

Shouldnt ethereal show up as a dependency if I use the ethereal use flag? -- also, the ethereal ebuild is also broken. I dont have X at all on that machine, and X and gtk2 dont show up as dependencies...
Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-26 04:04:52 UTC
You are trying to emerge net-wireless/kismet-3.0.1-r1 - not net-wireless/kismet-2004.10.1 as I asked for.

The ethereal depend has been fixed in net-wireless/kismet-2004.10.1. Please file a seperate bug for build issues in ethereal since they are not related to kismet.
Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-26 04:11:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48112 ***
Comment 5 Roman Gaufman 2004-10-26 04:15:45 UTC
ok, just emerge synced, and no change for the stable version:

server kismet # USE="ethereal" emerge -vp kismet

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-27_pre26  +nls 178 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/kismet-2004.04.1-r1  -acpi +ethereal -gps 5,607 kB



It is indeed fixed on the masked version:

server kismet # USE="ethereal" emerge -vp =kismet-2004.10.1

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.6  -adns -debug -gtk -gtk2 -ipv6 -snmp +ssl 4,928 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-27_pre26  +nls 178 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/kismet-2004.10.1  +ethereal -gps 850 kB

Total size of downloads: 5,957 kB


The bug report is for the stable version however, so please resolve it.