emerging command-line only Nessus

[cosjef]

I don't run X, and don't want the GTK Nessus GUI interface. When I do an emerge -p nessus, it wants to install X, as below:

# emerge -p nessus
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!

[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2
[ebuild N ] dev-util/intltool-0.25
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.6a
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-plugins-2.0.6a
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-2.0.6a

Is there a USE flag or some other parameter that I need to pass to emerge to ensure I get the console-only version? Only a regular build, this is enabled by adding the --disable-gtk option to configure while building nessus-core :

cd nessus-core ; ./configure --disable-gtk ; make && make install

I see this potential option in the src_compile clause in the /usr/portage/net-analyzer/nessus-core/nessus-core-2.0.6a.ebuild file. Can anyone shed some light here?
Thanks.

Jeff

[paranode]

It looks like the nessus-core has gtk and gtk2 USE flag options to go with it.

[cosjef]

Just to confirm I've got this right:

1) Set the proper environment variables to disable building support for X, tcpd, GTK.
USE="-X -gtk -tcpd"

2) Verify with echo:
# echo $USE
-X -gtk -tcpd

3) I do an emerge -p nessus, which returns the following:
# emerge -p nessus
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2
[ebuild N ] dev-util/intltool-0.25
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.6a
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-plugins-2.0.6a
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-2.0.6a

4) Issue the emerge nessus command, which will NOT install any of the GTK or X11 packages, because I set the proper environment variables, right?

I just want to be certain that setting the ENV to -X -gtk will disable building in that functionality. When I look at the results of the "pretend", it looks as if they still will.

[paranode]

Hmm, either emerge doesn't look at environment variables or it simply doesn't work. So see if

[cosjef]

Thanks, that did it. I didn't know that emerge would not see the shell variables after you set them. That said, the build seems to still be broken--it tried to install Nessus components out of order, and was missing others. An emerge -pretend based on USE="-X -gtk -tcpd" emerge nessus -p detailed the following:

[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.6a
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-plugins-2.0.6a
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nessus-2.0.6a

Unfortunately, the following emerges were needed first:

emerge nessus-libraries
emerge libnasl

Seems like the ebuild is wrong. Whom do I contact fo fix this? Any idea? (sorry, I'm only a recent Gentoo convert).

[paranode]

Hmm that's odd, I've got it working fine. Maybe it's because I upgraded from a previous version. Check out bugs.gentoo.org and if you don't find anything you can report a bug in the ebuild there.

Also, if you have no plans to run X or gtk and the like you should permanently add those flags to /etc/make.conf so that they always apply to ebuilds.
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