Bug 674934

Summary:	app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1 equery depends/depgraph doesn't understand BDEPEND
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Duncan <1i5t5.duncan>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Duncan 2019-01-09 04:24:04 UTC

BDEPEND is apparently invisible to equery depends/depgraph. That's a problem when you're trying to figure out what's pulling in a package and it's a BDEPEND.

Background: My latest update pulled in cython, but equery depends cython could only see the USE=python dependent yasm and kmod deps, and I don't have USE=python set, thus explaining why I didn't have cython already merged. I went ahead with the update but then went to check what was pulling it in after the update finished, as the post-update emerge --depclean (with bdeps=y) didn't want to unmerge cython either.

equery depends /still/ refused to help me!

I ended up having to do an emerge --pretend --tree --emptytree @world and search the output for cython to find it was the new lxml-4.3.0 pulling it in, then check the lxml ebuild itself to find the dependency. Turns out the new lxml has a BDEPEND on cython. That naturally begged the question[1] of what was pulling in lxml, which turns out to be a BDEPEND of systemd-240-r2.

Once I figured that out what packages were pulling in lxml and cython I tried an equery depgraph to see if at least that worked. No. I also tried without luck qdepend from portage-utils, but that's the next bug...

equery depends/depgraph should (at least optionally) be able to tell me about BDEPENDs as well.

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[1] Begged the question: Yes, I know the circular logic definition, but the literal component-words meaning of figuratively begging that the question be asked is now the more common usage. Now I tend to footnote either meaning, tho this is my more common usage as well, as I tend to use the clearer "circular logic" when I wish to convey the less transparent meaning.

Comment 1 Duncan 2019-05-12 06:43:17 UTC

Fixed with the patch for bug #685538 and bump to 0.4.5.  Thanks.  Closing.  (Hmm... resolved/obsolete or resolved/fixed?  Both apply, but given no reply here I guess it's now obsolete.)

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-05-12 07:51:38 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoolkit.git/commit/?id=43ecd536e7b8ad2af343288fe2e6d919f8edf5aa

commit 43ecd536e7b8ad2af343288fe2e6d919f8edf5aa
Author:     Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-05-11 22:42:09 +0000
Commit:     Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-05-11 22:42:09 +0000

    Include BDEPEND in dep checks
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/685538
    Signed-off-by: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org>

 pym/gentoolkit/dependencies.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)