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FS#12987 - bootchart depends on j2re which should be an optdepend

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Denis Martinez (denis) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 19:14 GMT
Last edited by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 23:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

bootchart has java in its dependencies which is required for running bootchart-render, not the bootchart-daemon. It is not very convenient for running in a minimal environment (for example a live system or a VM).

Solution:
Move j2re from depends to optdepends.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 23:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 14:52 GMT
This should be done in the same time than  FS#13292  :)
Comment by Tomi Belan (Tomi) - Thursday, 19 February 2009, 16:05 GMT
Proposed patch, seems to work:

--- /var/abs/extra/bootchart/PKGBUILD 2009-02-18 06:04:26.000000000 +0100
+++ PKGBUILD 2009-02-19 16:52:54.174829091 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
url="http://www.bootchart.org/"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL2')
-depends=('j2re' 'acct')
+depends=('acct')
+optdepends=('java-runtime: for bootchart-render')
makedepends=('apache-ant')
install=bootchart.install
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2
Comment by Tomi Belan (Tomi) - Thursday, 19 February 2009, 16:08 GMT
Now it's properly attached as a file. Patches don't seem to take being pasted into comments well.
   bootchart-PKGBUILD.patch (0.4 KiB)
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 20 February 2009, 00:14 GMT
Please confirm 0.9-5 is fixed
Comment by JM (fijam) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 23:16 GMT
confirming that fix works

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