Bug 676104

Summary:	sys-block/parted-3.2_p23 should RDEPEND on sys-apps/dmidecode
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Francesco Turco <fturco>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	mail
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	info.txt

Description Francesco Turco 2019-01-23 13:09:12 UTC

Created attachment 562572 [details]
info.txt

If sys-apps/dmidecode is not installed, parted produces the following warning message:

> sh: dmidecode: command not found

This happens at least since sys-block/parted-3.2_p23. I haven't checked previous versions.

Installing sys-apps/dmidecode fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Francesco Turco 2019-01-23 13:10:59 UTC

$ emerge -pv parted dmidecode

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/dmidecode-3.2::gentoo  USE="(-selinux)" 0 KiB
[ebuild   R    ] sys-block/parted-3.2_p23::gentoo  USE="device-mapper nls readline -debug (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-01-23 13:27:51 UTC

It's a warning, not an error. If you don't like the warning, install dmidecode. Not all systems that support parted (nearly all architectures) also support dmidecode.

Comment 3 Francesco Turco 2019-01-23 15:07:28 UTC

I'm not an expert, but isn't it possible to add a condition in the ebuild such as: if architecture == amd64, then require dmidecode?

Comment 4 Maciej S. Szmigiero 2019-04-09 15:29:55 UTC

This message doesn't actually come from the parted code itself but
from Debian's "gptsync.patch" patch which uses dmidecode to detect
(Intel) Macs and change the way protective MBR gets written there.

So it isn't actually just a harmless warning, it makes the package
misbehave on these machines.

Note that the aforementioned code is only active on x86 (both 32 and 64-bit),
so, as Francesco has said above, RDEPENDing on sys-apps/dmidecode just
for x86 and amd64 is fine.