Summary: | gnome-panel locks dependency on old version of evolution-data-server | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Andrew Esh <andrew_esh> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Patches gnome-panel-2.8.3.ebuild to fix evolution-data-server version requirement.
Proposed new gnome-panel-2.8.3.ebuild |
Description
Andrew Esh
2005-05-25 12:22:54 UTC
Created attachment 59809 [details, diff]
Patches gnome-panel-2.8.3.ebuild to fix evolution-data-server version requirement.
Patches gnome-panel-2.8.3.ebuild to fix evolution-data-server version
requirement.
Created attachment 59810 [details]
Proposed new gnome-panel-2.8.3.ebuild
Fixes evolution-data-server version requirement.
(In reply to comment #0) > Found that gnome-extras/gnome-panel-2.8.2.ebuild has an RDEPEND line like this: "eds? > ( =gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.0* )", which selects on "1.0*" versions. > Changed to "eds? ( >=gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.0* )", which allows the > use of version 1.2.1. Now emerge doesn't try to downgrade it anymore. > NOTE: This change fixes the evolution-data-server(EDS) version selection only. > If gnome-panel is not fully forward compatible with EDS version 1.2.1, then EDS > will have to be slotted, and both versions 1.0.4 and 1.2.1 will have to be > emerged. Such compatibility was not fully tested. After doing the above change, and then doing a revdep-rebuild, a rebuild of gnome-panel was attempted. Library checks failed for libecal. gnome-panel-2.8.3 appears to require libecal-1.0, while evolution-data-server provides libecal-1.2. They need to be slotted. eds cannot be slotted. You will not be able to run both evolution-2.2 and gnome 2.8, as evolution 2.2 is part of gnome 2.10. Probably, evolution 2.2 should be masked as long as gnome 2.10 is. (In reply to comment #4) > eds cannot be slotted. You will not be able to run both evolution-2.2 and gnome > 2.8, as evolution 2.2 is part of gnome 2.10. Probably, evolution 2.2 should be > masked as long as gnome 2.10 is. Well, I slotted it in my portage overlay, and I have 1.0.4 and 1.2.1 both installed now. The latter probably overwrote parts of the former, so I bet 1.0.4 isn't fully there, but enough of it is to cause gnome-panel to emerge correctly. I have libecal-1.0 and libecal-1.2, so gnome-panel and evolution are satisfied, respectively. revdep-rebuild has stopped complaining now, too. I'll leave well enough alone and drop this issue here. I don't use gnome enough to be making rational choices for its ebuilds. I'm an Evolution user. BTW: Why can't eds be slotted? I want to know how to look at a package and tell that it can't be, so I don't waste my time trying. In general, a package can be slotted if everything it installs is versioned in name (either in file name or in directory name), and you can run two different versions at the same time without confusing ether version or anything depending them. Eds is actually quite good about this already, and could probably be made to be slotted, but, since it's part of gnome 2.10 now, and will be an integral part of gnome going forward, it's probably better to just tie it to the correct gnome version. (In reply to comment #6) > but, since it's part of gnome 2.10 now, and will be an integral > part of gnome going forward, it's probably better to just tie it to the correct > gnome version. Thanks for the reply. I know more now. The problem with tying it to Gnome is: I'm a KDE user. Aside from any Gnome libraries that are actually linked to Evolution, I don't need Gnome. I think that's why the developers didn't form a dependency on a version of Gnome, because Evolution can be run without it, and shouldn't depend on it and pull it in. Maybe there is some langauge in the RDEPEND syntax that can be used to express such a dependency. The real problem is evolution coming out of ~arch before the rest of gnome 2.10. Why is gnome-panel installed just for evo? That sounds like a bizarre dependency chain. I'll look into it. |