Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: [arch] circular dependence in core

On 11/2/07, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Dan McGee schrieb:

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On 11/1/07, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2007/11/1, Aaron Griffin :

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Forwarding to the dev list in case people don't read the arch list.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mister Dobalina Date: Nov 1, 2007 10:27 AM Subject: [arch] circular dependence in core To: General Discusson about Arch Linux

coreutils 6.9-3 -> depends on bash

bash 3.2.025-1 -> depends on readline>=5.2

readline 5.2-4 -> depends on ncurses

ncurses 5.6-4 -> depends on coreutils -> oops!

This was casused by this commit: http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/ncurses/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&cvsroot=Core&only_with_tag=CURRENT I think we should revert it (because dependencies of other packages are fine and make more sense).

I made this change because ncurses has an install script, and without coreutils installed it may fail to execute if you are doing a new chroot install. Any thoughts when this kind of thing comes up? Ideally we use as few install scripts as possible in core/base so we don't have to worry about this.

This is not an issue anymore.

post_upgrade() { echo ">> You can safely ignore any \"cannot open shared object\" errors you see above" }

This was the install scriptlet. Since pacman3, the error it refers to is gone (probably due to different upgrade mechanisms) and I removed the install= line from the ncurses PKGBUILD some time ago (I don't have an install file for ncurses in my local package db).

Can you please cvs tag -d all of the testing/current tags and cvs rm the file then? It shows up in ABS still, thus the reason I added the depend. Yes guys, people do use ABS- we should make sure we keep it clean of old paches, deleted packages, etc. -Dan