>Number:         31070
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       circular dependency in pkgtools/x11-links
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 25 15:33:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Randy Manchester
>Release:        pkgsrc.tar.gz dloaded 2005-08-25
>Organization:
Woods Hole Oceanographic
>Environment:
Debian Sarge on Intel

Linux fox 2.6.10 #1 Thu Mar 24 22:08:53 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

>Description:
Getting "Circular dependency detected" when building x11-links package. Installed a fresh copy of pkgsrc and bootstrap without errors but problem persists.

fox:/usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links# bmake
===> *** No /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities file found,
===> *** skipping vulnerability checks. To fix, install
===> *** the pkgsrc/security/audit-packages package and run
===> *** '/usr/pkg/sbin/download-vulnerability-list'.
===> Extracting for x11-links-0.26
===> Required package x11-links>=0.25: NOT found
===> Verifying reinstall for ../../pkgtools/x11-links
===> Circular dependency detected
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links

>How-To-Repeat:
On Debian Sarge:
untar pkgsrc and bootstrap 
cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links
bmake
>Fix: