From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E34138010 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A547E0770; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6759E074F for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:04:47 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+IOt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEFOhwzCxgJEwERDwUlN4gRwS2NYYJIYQONfoRcgzKFfohwgV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+IOt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEFOhwzCxgJEwERDwUlN4gRwS2NYYJIYQONfoRcgzKFfohwgV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="5651008" Received: from 206-248-131-173.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.131.173]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 24 Mar 2013 04:04:43 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:04:25 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:04:25 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod Message-ID: <20130324080425.GB19927@waltdnes.org> References: <3565546.OiNQyl8pmS@queen> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e857b299-f990-40a6-99c6-337a29ac004f X-Archives-Hash: 7739ad2fa1f631323debcd7f1fa0945f On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:06:05PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support. > > On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when compiled complains about missing modules-support in the kernel (as it should). > > Doing an "equery d sys-apps/kmod" I can see that the following two packages depends on sy-apps/kmod: > > sys-fs/udev-197-r8 (kmod ? >=sys-apps/kmod-12) > > virtual/modutils-0 (sys-apps/kmod[tools]) > > > > sys-fs/udev has "-kmod" in its USE-flags, so that should not be an issue). > > # emerge --verbose --pretend sys-fs/udev > > [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-197-r8 USE="acl openrc -doc -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap -kmod (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB > > > > With virtual/modutils its an other thing, here we have a circular dependency between virtual/modutils and sys-apps/kmod if the tools USE-flag is set. > > That circular dep is interesting; sys-apps/kmod only depends on > virtual/modutils because it inherits linux-mod.eclass. > > Could you file about about the circular dependency please? I hesitated to file a bug, because my desktop is running mdev instead of udev (just fine thank, you), and it might not be supported. I've removed module-init-tools. I have virtual/modutils-0 and sys-apps/kmod-12-r1 installed. Here's what happens... [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv1 virtual/modutils These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] virtual/modutils-0 0 kB [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv1 sys-apps/modutils These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1 0 kB [uninstall ] sys-apps/kmod-12-r1 USE="tools zlib -debug -doc -lzma -static-libs" [blocks b ] sys-apps/modutils ("sys-apps/modutils" is blocking sys-apps/kmod-12-r1) [blocks b ] sys-apps/kmod ("sys-apps/kmod" is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1) -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications