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LostInGentoo
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:08 pm    Post subject: Circular dependency problem: kmod and virtual/modutils Reply with quote

Hi

I'm really having problems with circular dependencies: kmod and virtual/modutils

When trying to merge:
Code:

preben@xs36v /usr/src/linux $ sudo emerge -av1 kmod virtual/modutils kmod

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.


These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!


[ebuild  N     ] virtual/modutils-0  0 kB
[ebuild  N     ]  sys-apps/kmod-12-r1  USE="tools zlib -debug -doc -lzma -static-libs" 1,246 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,246 kB

 * Error: circular dependencies:

(sys-apps/kmod-12-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on
 (virtual/modutils-0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)
  (sys-apps/kmod-12-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (runtime)

 * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
 * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
preben@xs36v /usr/src/linux $


I have tried oneshot, combinations of kmod and virtual/modutils, unmerged module-init-tools and modutils - but none of this changes the message above.

What can I do?


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Emerge --info gives the following: http://invers.dk/public/info.txt
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm having the exact same issue, same kmod-modutils circular dependency.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ran into the same thing. Don't know enough about how dependencies are specified in ebuild files to say exactly what the problem is, but I worked around it by creating an overlay for virtual/modutils (called it modutils-1 to make sure it overrides the buggy version) with all dependencies removed. I was then able to emerge kmod.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

USE -tools

what does that do for you?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tried the "-tools" also, and the same error...

Besides, I would understand that this would actually cause an error since virtual/modutils requires either kmod with the tools useflag or modutils sysapp or module-init-tools! However, having the tools use flag defined does not make sense to me why this causes trouble!


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Preben
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I ran into the same problem as you today...

I fixed it by forcing kmod to update with no dependency checks

Code:
emerge --oneshot --nodeps kmod


After tht my modutils update worked. I don't know how safe it is, but it worked...

Good luck.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After syncing the portage tree and updateing portage itself this morning the problem seems to be solved. The circular dependency is gone for me
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