* Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/man-db depends to app-text/po4a
@ 2014-10-13 18:46 99% ` hogren
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From: hogren @ 2014-10-13 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Le Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:15:43 -0400,
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:14 AM, hogren <hogren@iiiha.com> wrote:
> > Le Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:22:04 +0200,
> > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de> a écrit :
> >
> >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:37:14AM +0100, Stroller wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, 11 October 2014, at 7:17 am, hogren <hogren@iiiha.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > …
> >> > > Emerge try to compile sys-apps/man-db-2.6.6 and fails.
> >> > > When I watched the build log, I saw that in the compilation
> >> > > period, po4a is not found.
> >> > >
> >> > > I make an #emerge app-text/po4a, I tried again #emerge
> >> > > @preserved-rebuild. It's ok.
> >> > >
> >> > > Is it correct if I file a bug about that ?
> >> >
> >> > Yes, absolutely.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you for your service.
> >>
> >> Actually: I think no.
> >>
> >> This is caused because you recently updated perl and there is some
> >> version missmatch/dependency issue caused by it.
> >> Run perl-cleaner --all (and emerge -v1 $(qlist -CI virtual/perl) if
> >> you run into issues).
> >> The missing dependency (app-text/po4a) will get pulled along the
> >> way (did so a few hours ago).
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for your response (even if I read the bug [41124] before).
> >
> > I have a question.
> > Is there the same problem on other rolling release OS like Arch ? Or
> > even Debian Testing ?
> > If there is'nt, how do they do ? what is the gentoo particularity
> > which make it no possible ?
> >
> > It's not difficult for me to run perl-cleaner, even if I forget to
> > read output of last upgrades (I have an old laptop and when I
> > upgrade, I execute "emerge -uD world; halt" and go to my bed :) ).
> > But I just want to understand the problem.
> >
> > Thank you !
>
> I assume they would have a similar issue on their build machines. They
> would have to rebuild all packages which depend on perl when changing
> major versions.
>
> As an end-user, you would not notice it because the new packages just
> get pulled down automatically.
>
> It's the difference between a source-based distro (Gentoo) and a more
> traditional distro (Debian, Arch, etc).
>
Oh yes I understand.
A new version of perl generate (not automatically) a new version of
many other packages, that is ?
Thank you.
Hogren
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