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Flurp
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 Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:37 am Post subject: Confused about rxtx and jgoodies [Clarified] |
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Last week when I came to my regular update I saw that dev-java/rxtx has been last rited:
| Code: | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "rxtx" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-java/rxtx-2.2_pre2-r2::Richard (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Volkmar W. Pogatzki <gentoo@pogatzki.net> (2025-03-31)
# Depends on broken dev-java/rxtx, bugs #761103, #867409, #874444, #898170
# #927898.
# Depends on dev-java/jgoodies-{common,looks} which are no longer available
# "at no charge". https://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/libraries/#post-63
# Removal on 2025-04-30.
- dev-java/rxtx-2.2_pre2-r2::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
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I can't say I'm surprised; upstream hasn't released any updates for many years and there are several open bugs (although most seem to be about building with musl and I did find and upload a patch for 761103 which fixed that for me).
Now to the reason for this post. I am curious that the message above states that rxtx has a dependancy on jgoodies. From what I can see this is a set of tools for working with GUIs while rxtx is a low level serial port interface. In any case, I don't have jgoodies installed on any of my systems and don't understand why it is mentioned. Does anyone have any ideas?
By the way, I recently needed to install the java program which uses rxtx on another, ancient, laptop and Gentoo was the way which made that possible for me - I couldn't get rxtx working on other distros or on Windows. I wouldn't have considered installing Gentoo without the binary hosts due to compilation time on old hardware, but that facility made it a very doable, even smooth process. Installation time was longer than lightweight binary distros but totally reasonable, and I have a full Gentoo installation. I'm very impressed.
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Banana
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Hu
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| The presentation is a bit confusing. Portage displays the banner comment associated with the mask. In this case, a review of the package.mask file reveals, and a look at the associated git commit message confirms, that the developer was focused on masking sci-geosciences/bt747, and wrote the comment accordingly. The same commit also masked rxtx and jgoodies, presumably because they are only needed for bt747, so with bt747 masked, they too can be removed. |
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Flurp
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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@Banana, I wasn't very clear but the rxtx ebuild makes no mention of jgoodies, which is why I was confused.
@Hu, Ah. I understand now. OK, so jgoodies has nothing to do with rxtx but rxtx is being removed as a side effect of removing bt747 which does rely on jgoodies. I will look into package.mask for future reference.
Thanks for helping! |
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