Add subport as a dependency

[tiagofrepereira2012 (Tiago Freitas Pereira)]

Hi,

I'm creating a Portfile which contains several subports.

I would like to add these subports as a dependency of my main Portfile, but it seems not possible. When I try to install I have the following error.

--->  Dependencies to be installed: py-bob.blitz py-bob.core py-bob.io.base
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: py-bob.blitz py-bob.core py-bob.io.base

Those packages "py-bob.blitz py-bob.core py-bob.io.base" are my subports. The dependencies are defined in the line 64 of the attached file.

Thank you very much in advance!!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In the Portfile you've written

depends_run \
    port:py-bob.blitz \
    port:py-bob.core \
    port:py-bob.io.base

outside of any blocks or conditionals. That means it applies to all ports, both the "main" port and all the subports. So, for example, you've asked the subport py-bob.blitz to have a dependency on itself, which of course can't work. If you only want the main port to have those dependencies, say that:

if {${subport} eq ${name}} {
    depends_run \
        port:py-bob.blitz \
        port:py-bob.core \
        port:py-bob.io.base
}

But there are additional problems here. You're using the python portgroup, whose purpose is to let you create one port (named py-something) and it will create subports for you (named py26-something, py27-something, py33-something, py34-something, etc.) based on how you set python.versions. But then you're trying to create additional py-somethingelse subports as well. The python portgroup doesn't know anything about these other subports you've created, and will not create py26-somethingelse etc. subports for you, so that won't work right. Furthermore, these subports are all for different software, which have their own version numbers, master_sites, distfiles and checksums. I think you'll find things will work correctly if you create a separate portfile for each software, and not try to put them all into the same portfile.

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