Build of "telepathy-glib" fails

[Lowell Gilbert]

Andre Goree <andre at drenet.net> writes:

> On 12/03/2014 2:23 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Andre Goree <andre at drenet.net> writes:
>>
>>> FWIW, I've also seen this.  Like someone else mentioned, I think it
>>> has to do with the vala install, which I haven't been able to update
>>> either because according to /usr/ports/UPDATING I need to install
>>> gnome3 to update it, which I find to be ludicrous.
>>
>> You are misunderstanding the instructions.
>>
>> If you aren't using Gnome, it's quite possible that nothing on your
>> system depends on vala, so the "users of vala" description wouldn't
>> apply to you. Assuming that it is in fact a leaf node, updating (or
>> removing) it is fine and doesn't even require any special instructions.
>>
>> telepathy-glib has a runtime dependency on vala, but you'll probably
>> still be fine doing a normal upgrade of both.
>
> Unfortunately:
>
> root at daemon2 ~ # pkg remove vala
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> Deinstallation has been requested for the following 9 packages (of 0
> packages in the universe):
>
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         vala-0.20.1_1
>         vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         telepathy-glib-0.20.2_1 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         telepathy-farsight-0.0.19_2 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         telepathy-qt4-0.9.3_1 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         krfb-4.14.2 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         kdenetwork-4.14.2 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         kde-4.14.2 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>         krdc-4.14.2 (depends on vala-0.20.1_1)
>
> and even:
>
> root at daemon2 ~ # pkg remove vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> Deinstallation has been requested for the following 8 packages (of 0
> packages in the universe):
>
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1
>         telepathy-glib-0.20.2_1 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>         telepathy-farsight-0.0.19_2 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>         telepathy-qt4-0.9.3_1 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>         krfb-4.14.2 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>         kdenetwork-4.14.2 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>         kde-4.14.2 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>         krdc-4.14.2 (depends on vala-vapigen-0.20.1_1)
>
>
> I do indeed use kde4 on this box.

You could check with whoever wrote that UPDATING entry.

At the very worst, you'll have to do something along the lines of "pkg
delete vala-vapigen" followed by a "pkg add x11/kde" (or some equivalent
like building the port instead of the "pkg add"). In other words, follow
the instructions as listed but replace "gnome3" with "kde4". That would
be my recommendation.

I suppose the UPDATING entry could be corrected to cover anything that
gets deinstalled by the "pkg delete" bits of the procedure, not just gnome.