cyrus-sasl problem

[Dennis Veatch]

On Sunday 24 April 2005 09:10 pm, Richard Pyne wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2005 at 20:42, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 April 2005 05:31 pm, Richard Pyne wrote:
> > > I have tried several mutations of re-writing the cyrus-sasl
> > > module to allow installing WITHOUT PAM. I have tried a version
> > > that makes Linux-PAM and optional depends and I have tried a
> > > version with all reference to Linux-PAM removed (and the --
> > > without-pam configureation option added).
> > >
> > > Can someone PLEASE explain where it is getting this idea and
> > > WHAT I can do to correct it. cyrus-sasl does NOT require PAM! I
> > > can build it just fine manually without PAM, but for some
> > > strange reason, Lunar seems to think that cyrus-sasl requires
> > > Linux-PAM regardless of what the DEPENDS says.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --Richard
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > Have you tried looking in /var/state/lunar/depends, depends.backup and
> > depends.cache for a line or lines like this;
> >
> > cyrus-sasl:Linux-PAM:on:required::
> >
> > and deleting all references?
>
> Yes. In fact, after my rework of the module to make it an
> optional dependency, the line in /var/state/lunar/depends looked
> like this:
>
> cyrus-sasl:Linux-PAM:off:optional:--with-pam:--without-pam
>
> After deleting the reference and using my edited DEPENDS fiel
> that looks like this:
>
> depends openssl    &&
> depends db         &&
> optional_depends "Linux-PAM" "--with-pam" "--without-pam" "for
> PAM support" &&
> optional_depends "postgresql" "--with-pgsql" "--without-pgsql"
> "for PostgreSQL support" &&
> optional_depends "mysql" "--with-mysql" "--without-mysql" "for
> mysql support"
>
> (sorry for the line wraps)
>
> I still get:
>
> # lin -cr cyrus-sasl
> + Reconfiguring "cyrus-sasl"
> + removing all depends for and optional on "cyrus-sasl"
> + adding "required" depends for "cyrus-sasl" on "openssl" (on)
> + adding "required" depends for "cyrus-sasl" on "db" (on)
> cyrus-sasl: Install & use optional (not yet installed) module
> Linux-PAM dependency - purpose: for PAM support?  [n]
> + adding "optional" depends for "cyrus-sasl" on "Linux-PAM"
> (off)
> cyrus-sasl: Use optional (presently installed) module postgresql
> dependency - purpose: for PostgreSQL support?  [y]
> + adding "optional" depends for "cyrus-sasl" on "postgresql"
> (on)
> cyrus-sasl: Use optional (presently installed) module mysql
> dependency - purpose: for mysql support?  [y]
> + adding "optional" depends for "cyrus-sasl" on "mysql" (on)
> + Spawning download manager
> + download queue: Linux-PAM
> glib-2
> pkgconfig  cyrus-sasl
> + starting lin "cyrus-sasl"
> Checking dependencies for cyrus-sasl
> Checking dependencies for Linux-PAM
> Linux-PAM:  Adding required dependency glib-2
>
> Notice that is STILL thinks that Linux-PAM is required for cyrus-
> sasl!
>
> I even tried a completely clean install of Lunar, edited the
> cyrus-sasl module to completely remove Linux-PAM as even an
> optional depends, and still got the same result.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Richard
>
> _______________________________________________

Hmm, usually cleaning out the depends does it for me on things that won't 
reset. Darn and that was my best shot. Oh well :(