Bug 536310

Summary:	sys-apps/usbutils-008 should depend on virtual/libudev - ET_EXEC libusb-1.0.so.0,libudev.so.1,libc.so.6 /usr/bin/lsusb
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stuart Shelton <srcshelton>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs.gentoo.org, nikoli
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stuart Shelton 2015-01-11 13:50:31 UTC

sys-apps/usbutils-008 has an (undeclared) dependency on 'libudev >= 196'.  This is a blocker for embedded platforms and the like which are using, for example, busybox mdev in place of udev.

sys-apps/usbutils-007 has no libudev dependency.

Ideally, there'd be a patch to allow usbutils to continue to co-exist independently of udev, but at least the ebuild DEPENDS should capture this requirement.

Comment 1 El Goretto 2015-01-16 10:29:45 UTC

Hi,

Same issue here, upgrading from sys-apps/usbutils-007 to sys-apps/usbutils-008 breaks on servers using mdev (sys-apps/busybox).


Emerging (8 of 12) sys-apps/usbutils-008::gentoo
[...]
checking for LIBUSB... yes
checking for UDEV... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libudev >= 196) were not met:

No package 'libudev' found
[...]

Comment 2 Stuart Shelton 2015-02-21 02:07:09 UTC

For anyone it helps, I've worked-around the issue here:

https://github.com/srcshelton/gentoo-ebuilds/tree/master/sys-apps/usbutils

... by converting the ebuild to use git, and then cloning the usbutils repo and reverting the two problematic commits.  So far as I can tell, there are no adverse ramifications to this - udev isn't required.

Comment 3 Nikoli 2015-02-21 19:42:30 UTC

$ objdump -p /usr/bin/lsusb|grep NEEDED|sort
  NEEDED               libc.so.6
  NEEDED               libudev.so.1
  NEEDED               libusb-1.0.so.0

usbutils-008 $ grep libudev configure.ac names.c
configure.ac:PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UDEV, libudev >= 196)
names.c:#include <libudev.h>

So why ebuild does not have virtual/libudev DEPEND and RDEPEND?

Comment 4 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2015-02-21 20:25:46 UTC

Fixed in 008-r1. Someone should ask upstream to conditionalize their udev support or provide them a patch if you're interested in that.