Bug 73649

Summary:	perl blocks with File-Spec, etc?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eric Brown <eric.brown>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eric Brown 2004-12-07 05:15:39 UTC

I have some problems emerging spamassassin deps like dev-perl/File-Spec.  It seems that perl lists several packages, including File-Spec as a block.  Am I right to assume that File-Spec is part of the standard perl distribution at this point, so the functionality is built in now?

I would be inclined to assume that applications such as these:
spamassassin
Archive-Tar
Cache-cache
HTML-Mason
PodParser
Text-Harness

are wrong to depend on File-Spec on machines with newer versions of perl.  If that's the case, we could simply patch them... It looks like these blocks have been in the perl ebuild since 2003 though, so what's really going on?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Eric Brown 2004-12-07 05:29:17 UTC

On a further note, I mean File-Spec is a dep for spamassassin, and i think some of those other packages are indirectly depending on it.

I have another machine with spamassassin and perl 5.8.6 installed, but for some reason File-Spec is NOT installed... The ebuild for spamassassin says:

DEPEND="|| ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1
    ( >=dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.11-r1
    >=dev-perl/File-Spec-0.8
    dev-perl/Time-Local
    dev-perl/Getopt-Long
    ) )

Since I have perl-5.8.6, I'm wondering how this happened? emerge spamassassin -pv doesn't show any deps, and it's R.

Comment 2 Eric Brown 2004-12-07 05:38:49 UTC

Sorry, it must be too early to be thinking properly,

The problem was that File-Spec needed to be ~x86, and that even as an ~x86 package, it would block on emerge -uD world.  It had to be updated before world.

I don't think it's really a bug anymore.

Comment 3 charlax 2004-12-07 11:53:33 UTC

Sorry but I'm french and I don't see what you mean.

Can you explain how you have repair this bug ?

Comment 4 Eric Brown 2004-12-07 14:02:50 UTC

1) I put this into my /etc/portage/package.keywords:
dev-perl/File-Spec ~x86 
2)  emerge File-Spec  (it should update to the ~x86 version)
3)  emerge -uD world (works normal now, no blocks)

Comment 5 charlax 2004-12-08 05:54:59 UTC

Thank you very much !

It works !