Bug 65291 – Existance of db-1.85-r2 + explicit dependencies on db-1.85-r1 = endless upgrade cycles

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gian-Carlo Pascutto 2004-09-25 01:52:03 UTC]

A lot of ebuilds seem to explicitly depend on libdb-1.85-r1. However, there is a libdb-1.85-r2 package. As a result, any system depending on an affected package will end up upgrading/downgrading libdb-1.85 on each emerge upgrade.

Here are the current offenders I found:

net-www/apache-1.3.31
sys-libs/db-3.3.11 
net-analyzer/dsniff-2.3
profiles/(default-macos-10.x)
sys-libs/db-3.2.9
sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0
sys-libs/pam-0.75
sys-libs/pam-0.77

Some of the latest -r's on those may have fixed it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Upgrading-downgrading constantly is both pointless and annoying, so it should be
avoided.

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 01:03:01 UTC]

I will fix both db packages, but the other packages are not my responsibility (neither is db-1.85*)

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-09-27 19:59:55 UTC]

fixed everything mentioned that wasnt already fixed by someone else

only thing left is the macos profiles

[Comment 3 Kito (RETIRED) 2004-09-29 14:41:56 UTC]

ppc-macos profiles fixed in cvs

[Comment 4 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-10-31 02:15:32 UTC]

*** Bug 64247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Hasan Khalil (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 13:33:02 UTC]

Closing out bugs that've been resolved for a while now...