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Bug 580

Summary: emerge emerging the wrong dependencies
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Travis Tilley <lordviram>
Component: UnclassifiedAssignee: Geert Bevin <gbevin>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Highest    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Travis Tilley 2002-02-07 07:40:21 UTC
DirectFB optionally depends on avifile... the ebuild specifically does a depend
on avifile version 0.6.0 or greater. any version of avifile less than the
non-existant 0.7.0 is masked out. emerge installed avifile 0.5.something to
fulfill the dependency. i'm using portage 1.8.8-r1.
Comment 1 Geert Bevin 2002-02-07 18:39:34 UTC
DirectFB indead relies on avifile 0.6.0 or greater, but the latest version in
portage is 0.53.5-r1. Surely 53 > 6. So I'm flagging this as invalid
Comment 2 Travis Tilley 2002-02-07 19:45:41 UTC
noo... 0.53 is older than 0.6, 0.6 is the latest development version. i dont
know why it's named 0.53 and not 0.5.3, but in this case of versioning 53 is
less than 6.

quoting from the avifile page:
Here are some old obsolete sources just in case you would be looking for this
kind of code - otherwise don't bother and download 0.6 version

avifile-0.53.5.tar.gz (830 kb) - latest stable but OBSOLETE release. (and it
doesn't compile on modern distribution - so DO NOT BOTHER with bugreporting -
simply download and use latest avifile-0.6)


the latest version is named:
avifile-0.6.0-20011220admin.tgz

<b>
and it still doesn't answer why ANY avifile was installed in the first place.
ALL versions of avifile were masked out.......
</b>
Comment 3 Geert Bevin 2002-02-07 19:53:16 UTC
It does answer that question since all versions lower than 0.7.0 are masked.
0.53.5 is considered higher than that since as I said 53 > 7. This is not a
portage issue or a problem with emerge since if it should pick up this
particular version, it should have been named 0.5.3.5 or something like that.
Please leave this closed and submit a new bug about the avifile package.