[UNMETDEPS] iscsitarget has unmet dependencies; build from source fails

[Andrew Mitchell]

Binary package hint: iscsitarget

Installing iscsitarget results with the following error:

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iscsitarget: Depends: iscsitarget-module but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
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This is due to the fact that the binary package iscsitarget-module is not available in the Ubuntu repositiries at the moment.

Building iscsitarget-source to produce an iscsitarget-module package fails as follows (originally reported by Todd Deshane
in bug #137107 ):

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sudo apt-get install iscsitarget-source
sudo module-assistant
*prepare*
*select*
   --> Select iscsitarget
*build*
   --> Build will fail; review build logs.
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The original buildlog from bug #137107 as provided by Todd Deshane can be seen here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9102605/iscsitarget-source.buildlog.2.6.22-10-generic.1188844553

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Package iscsitarget version 0.4.15-2 has an unmet dep:
 Depends: iscsitarget-module

[Rouben (rouben)]

The above behaviours have been confirmed on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with all the latest updates at the time of this post.

[Rouben (rouben)]

According to the iscsitarget project devel mailing list, one needs to build the SVN trunk of the source in order to build this kernel module successfully: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=46F96917.4080108%40forrie.com&forum_name=iscsitarget-devel Therefore, it appears that upstream the developers of the iscsitarget project are aware of this issue and that it will be resolved in the next stable release.

[Rouben (rouben)]

This seems to have been fixed in Hardy, the package has been upgraded to 0.4.15-4 from 0.4.15-2 according to this page: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iscsitarget

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Fixed for hardy.