Kubler bob-musl builder fails to emerge openssh due to util-linux's su use-flag requiring pam

[berney]

Kubler bob-musl builder fails to emerge openssh due to util-linux's su use-flag requiring pam

[r7l]

I am still waiting for Gentoo to figure out what to do with libpam and for now i am trying to avoid it. I am having this in my custom builders:

update_use 'sys-apps/util-linux' '-su'
update_use 'sys-apps/shadow' '+su'

But thanks for the link. I haven't seen that issue and maybe it's a good idea to raise objections agains removing the option without libpam.

[edannenberg]

Couldn't reproduce this with a fresh install (no binary packages). Maybe resolved by upstream?

[berney]

util-linux has seemed to have had this USE su->pam dependency for a long time, see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/sys-apps/util-linux?id=fe07c3e46ee67b99c88c249cacaab79336e68682. So I'm not sure why bob-musl is breaking just now, nor why the stage3 (bob-musl-core) has USE -pam. The stage3 has shadow, but equery b /usr/bin/su says it belongs to util-linux and lddtree shows it uses libpam.

shadow was going to remove their su, which doesn't need pam, but because util-linux needs pam, they have for now stated they won't remove it just yet. See shadow-maint/shadow#464 (comment).

[berney]

I did a clean build with no binary packages and this problem went away.
So it appears it is an artifact of the binary packages I had cached.
Closing this issue and the PR.