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Bug 7888

Summary: error processing DEPEND for sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: jochem prins <j.prins>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker CC: at, drobbins
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: strace output for failing emerge -pu system

Description jochem prins 2002-09-13 14:07:30 UTC
When i attempted to emerge -pu system i got this error:

bash-2.05a# emerge -pu system

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating system dependencies |portage: aux_get(): error processing DEPEND for
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3; exiting.

Included is:
- strace -o dump.log emerge -pu world


DEPEND, RDEPEND part of ebuild: sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3.ebuild:
DEPEND=">=sys-libs/pam-0.75-r4
        >=sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r3
        sys-devel/gettext"
        
RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/pam-0.75-r4
        >=sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r3"

SLOT="0"


portage 2.0.36
gcc 2.95.3-r7
Comment 1 jochem prins 2002-09-13 14:08:13 UTC
Created attachment 3894 [details]
strace output for failing emerge -pu system
Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-09-15 06:09:25 UTC
Works fine this side.  Check that you do not have a copy in portage-local,
or maybe rm -rf that dir, and rsync again with diff rsync servers.
Comment 3 jochem prins 2002-09-20 10:43:43 UTC
The emerge -pu system seems to be resolved magically, so i guess it really was
something on my system that caused this bug. 
Comment 4 Bart Lauwers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-04-18 19:48:42 UTC
*** Bug 12653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***