Bug 33815 – vcron 3.0.1-r4 gives DEPEND/*DEPEND error

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33820
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gert-Jan Rodenburg 2003-11-19 03:54:26 UTC]

in the ebuild for vcron 3.0.1-r4 the RDEPEND line shows the following: 
[code] 
RDEPEND="!virtual/cron 
     sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r3 
     virtual/mta 
     selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )" 
[/code] 
 
the r3 version of vcron has: 
[code] 
RDEPEND="!virtual/cron 
     sys-apps/cronbase 
     virtual/mta 
     selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )" 
[/code] 
 
the r4 ebuild crashes while emerging with: 
[code] 
emerge --deep -up world 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating world dependencies \ 
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy 
"sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r3". 
 
!!! Problem with ebuild sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r4 
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. 
 
!!! Depgraph creation failed. 
[/code] 
 
When I remove the version number from the RDEPEND part of the r4 ebuild, and 
make it more like the r3 ebuild (exactly the same actually), it [i]and[/i] updates the 
cronbase to the latest version, [i]and[/i] emerges vcron r4 like a charm. 
 
Now I am not an ebuild expert, but should there be version info in the RDEPEND 
section? 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge sync 
2.emerge --deep -up world 
3. 
Actual Results:  
emerge stops with the following error: 
 
emerge --deep -up world 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating world dependencies \ 
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy 
"sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r3". 
 
!!! Problem with ebuild sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r4 
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. 
 
!!! Depgraph creation failed. 
 

Expected Results:  
upgrade system (including vcron) 

make the RDEPEND section of the r4 version of vcron look like this: 
[code] 
RDEPEND="!virtual/cron 
     sys-apps/cronbase 
     virtual/mta 
     selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )" 
[/code] 
 
and everything works.

[Comment 1 Simon Farnsworth 2003-11-19 04:34:17 UTC]

Alternatively, if the version info is intentional, changing it to:
[code] 
RDEPEND="!virtual/cron 
     >=sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r3
     virtual/mta 
     selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )" 
[/code] 
or
[code] 
RDEPEND="!virtual/cron 
     =sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r3
     virtual/mta 
     selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )" 
[/code] 
would work.

[Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 04:34:18 UTC]

Created attachment 20944 [details, diff]
Fixed ebuild for cronbase

[Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 04:35:52 UTC]

Here's a little patch that should solve the problem.

Woohoo - my first patch contrib  :)

[Comment 4 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 09:35:02 UTC]

Created attachment 20951 [details, diff]
Fixes cronbase dependancy

This patch should actually work ;)

cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/vcron
patch -p0 < /path/to/vcron-3.0.1-r4-cronbasefix.patch

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 12:12:43 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33820 ***