Re: pkg/33652 (several packages are missing dependencies)

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%brightdiamond.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/33652; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%brightdiamond.com@localhost>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/33652 (several packages are missing dependencies)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:31:43 -0400

 Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
 > Things seem better but not, I think, perfect -- here's what I just got
 > after deleting gnome-2.14.0 py23-gnome2-2.12.4nb1 
 > py23-gnome2-extras-2.12.0nb7 py23-gtk2-2.8.6 deskbar-applet-2.14.0.1nb1:
 > 
 > ===> Returning to build of py23-gnome2-2.12.4nb1
 > ===> Required installed package py23-gtk2>=2.8.4: py23-gtk2-2.8.6 found
 > ===> Required installed package py24-gtk2>=2.8.5nb1: NOT found
 > ===> Verifying package for ../../x11/py-gtk2
 > ===> Checking for vulnerabilities in py24-gtk2-2.8.6
 > => Checksum SHA1 OK for pygtk-2.8.6.tar.bz2.
 > => Checksum RMD160 OK for pygtk-2.8.6.tar.bz2.
 > ===> Overriding tools for py24-gtk2-2.8.6
 > ERROR: [depends.mk] A package matching ``py24-gtk2>=2.8.5nb1'' should
 > ERROR:     be installed, but one cannot be found.  Perhaps there is a
 > ERROR:     stale work directory for ../../x11/py-gtk2?
 > *** Error code 1
 > 
 > Stop.
 
 I've investigated some more.  The reason for the failure is that 
 deskbar-applet package directly and indirectly depends on two different 
 versions of py-gtk2, namely py23-gtk2 and py24-gtk2.  The problem is 
 that they are built from the same x11/py-gtk2 directory, so if, e.g. 
 py23-gtk2 is installed and the work directory is not removed, than any 
 subsequent build in x11/py-gtk2 will automatically return as a success 
 because of the presence of the "install cookie" from the previous 
 installation.
 
 I think you could get a successful build by removing the work directory 
 for x11/py-gtk2 manually.  Longer term, I think it would be best if you 
 directly set PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT to "24" in /etc/mk.conf to force 
 python-2.4.x to be installed to satisfy Python dependencies. 
 Unfortunately, you would need to "pkg_delete -r python23" to remove the 
 old Python and all packages that depended on it would have to be rebuilt.
 
 I really don't have a good solution to this problem.
 
        Cheers,
 
        -- Johnny Lam <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>