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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 19:39:48
Message-Id: 201205211539.44651.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds! by Pacho Ramos
1 On Monday 21 May 2012 15:04:44 Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El lun, 21-05-2012 a las 13:46 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev escribió:
3 > > On May 20, autools.eclass was changed to no longer inherit eutils, see
4 > > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/autotools.
5 > > eclass?r1=1.133&r2=1.134
6 > >
7 > > Relying on autotools.eclass for your eutils needs was always a terrible
8 > > idea, but a few ebuilds did it anyway. Those ebuilds are now *broken*
9 > > since they can no longer use epatch. See bug #416847 for an example.
10 > >
11 > > Check your ebuilds to make sure you inherit eutils in anything that uses
12 > > epatch!
13 >
14 > Looks like ebuilds not inheriting eutils directly even using epatch are
15 > a lot as I have seen running:
16 > grep inherit $(grep -r epatch */*/*.ebuild| cut -d: -f1) | grep -v
17 > eutils
18
19 this is what i was using:
20 find /usr/portage/*-* -name '*.ebuild' -exec grep -l '\<epatch\>' {} + | \
21 xargs grep -L inherit.*eutils
22
23 there's quite a number there :(
24
25 > Maybe they should be checked and a repoman warning should be added when
26 > an ebuild is using epatch without inheriting eutils directly, otherwise
27 > this problem could reappear if some other eclass no longer inherit it in
28 > the future :-/
29
30 yeah, a repoman check would be a really good idea
31 -mike

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