[Solved] Circular Dependency Hell with dbus and hal

fnord_ix · Last edited by fnord_ix on Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:08 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I'm having alot of trouble trying to emerge hal-0.5.5.1-r3 and dbus-0.60-r3. These are the results for the following commands;

UncleOwen · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

I don't see any problem so far.

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

Looking at the ebuilds, HAL does have a build time (and run time) dependancy on dbus, but not the other way around, so you should be ok.

Are you actually having any trouble here?

fnord_ix · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:21 am Post subject:

The problem I am having, is when I try to emerge dbus, the first package to be compiled, due to dependencies, is hal, and I get this error;

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

How about a normal emerge:

ecatmur · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:29 am Post subject:

First, please use --verbose when posting emerge output to the forums -- it makes it a lot easier to see what's going on. Also, consider using --tree.

That said, it's easy to see what's happening; the doc and mono use flags on dbus are pulling in mono-tools, which is pulling in various gnome libraries that depend on hal.

The easiest way to fix this would be not to emerge hal or dbus directly; just turn on the hal USE flag and let portage sort out the dependency order.
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fnord_ix · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:27 am Post subject:

I already have the hal use flag turned on.

Just a bit more info to help you...

ecatmur · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:45 am Post subject:

Have you run emerge --deep --update --newuse world recently? Have you tried merging something that uses hal, rather than hal itself? Why do you want/need hal installed?
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fnord_ix · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:08 am Post subject:

It appears that the problem is solved. I'm not sure how, but I'll explain what I did in the hope that it might help future users who have a similar problem.

I just had to rebuild my system due to a faulty hard drive. I was installing KDE following The KDE Configuration HOWTO http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml. Towards the end of the document it says to

ecatmur · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:41 am Post subject:

If you had to disable a USE flag to get it to install, then it is a genuine bug in the Portage tree.

I've filed https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123232 for this issue. Thanks for helping to diagnose it!
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