Re: [gentoo-user] unix2dos blocks dos2unix

[gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

2014-09-14 10:59 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>:
> On 14/09/2014 09:47, Gevisz wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:57:37 +0530
>> Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote:
>>>> I have just installed unix2dos utility
>>>> (never had a need to use it before) and
>>>> just after that tried to install dos2unix
>>>> but the installation of dos2unix failed
>>>> complaining on the fact that
>>>>
>>>> "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5
>>>>
>>>> I find it very strange as I think that if someone
>>>> needs unix2dos utility he usually also needs dos2unix
>>>> utility, especially taking into account that unix2dos
>>>> by default overwrites its input file.
>>>>
>>>> This is the output from the emerge command:
>>>>
>>>> # emerge --ask dos2unix
>>>>
>>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>>
>>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>> [ebuild  N     ] app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5  USE="nls -debug"
>>>> [blocks B      ] app-text/unix2dos ("app-text/unix2dos" is blocking
>>>> app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5)
>>>> [blocks B      ] >=app-text/dos2unix-5 (">=app-text/dos2unix-5" is
>>>> blocking app-text/unix2dos-2.2-r1)
>>>>
>>>>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>>>>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>>>>
>>>>   (app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>>>> pulled in by dos2unix
>>>>
>>>>   (app-text/unix2dos-2.2-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>>>>     app-text/unix2dos required by @selected
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
>>>> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
>>>> irrelevant):
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>>>>
>>>> Any thought?
>>>>
>>>
>>> % eix dos2unix
>>> 14-09-14 - 12:56:42
>>> * app-text/dos2unix
>>>      Available versions:  6.0.3 6.0.5 (~)6.0.6 {debug nls}
>>>      Homepage:            http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/
>>>      Description:         Convert DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format
>>> or ***vice versa***
>>>
>>>
>>> dos2unix handles both, that's why.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, thak you. I have only checked that unix2dos converts one way.
>> But, anyway, it is unexpected behavior.
>
> Not really. Look at both packages in eix, they have vastly different
> version numbers but they both have the same homepage:
>
> "In 2010 the two separate dos2unix and unix2dos packages have been
> bundled into a single dos2unix package (version 5.0). Support for
> Unicode UTF-16 was added in 2012 (version 6.0)."
>
> Visualize the name as having "<->" instead of "2" :-)
>
> From a first glance, I'd guess that unix2dos has been obsolete
> (superceded?) for 4 years and should be removed from the tree

Yes, I have already looked at that page and have the same impression as you.

And the same conviction that in this case unix2dos should be removed from
the portage tree, as well. :)