[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36469] pkg load can't deal with circular dependencies

[Carnë Draug]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36469>

                 Summary: pkg load can't deal with circular dependencies
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: carandraug
            Submitted on: Mon 14 May 2012 10:06:20 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.6.1
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Hi

when there's 2 packages, each of them depending on each other, pkg load will
enter into a recursive loop and give a max_recursion_depth exceeded error. pkg
install does not have that problem (provided both packages are given at the
time of installation).

Basically, if pkg1 and pkg2 depend on one another:

## both fail (missing dependency)
pkg install pkg1.tar.gz
pkg install pkg2.tar.gz
## works fine
pkg install pkg1.tar.gz pkg2.tar.gz
## returns error
pkg load pkg1 pkg2


A temporary workaround for this is to load the packages with the -nodeps
flag.

I'll have to look into this code better when I get time but I was thinking of
looking into whatever pkg install is doing to solve the dependencies, and
adapt it for pkg load.

Carnë




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