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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mythtv@g.o, cardoe@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:43:23
Message-Id: CAEdQ38EP5rjC3OcGDPJEhoh+062LTK9qXZLAxBaQfEN4axguLw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages by Sergei Trofimovich
1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> wrote:
2 > slep noticed and reported an odd thing:
3 >
4 > $ euse -i kate
5 > ...
6 > ls: cannot access /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-perl-*: No such file or directory
7 > ls: cannot access /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-ruby-*: No such file or directory
8 > ...
9 >
10 > The dirs they don't contain ebuilds. Only metadata.
11 > KDE team is aware and fixing their orphans.
12 >
13 > I've decided to write a hack to find such instances in tree:
14 >
15 > $ ./find_empty.sh ~/portage/gentoo-x86/
16 > kde-base/kdeaccessibility-colorschemes
17 > kde-base/kdeaccessibility-iconthemes
18 > kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers
19 > kde-base/kdebindings-csharp
20 > kde-base/kdebindings-perl
21 > kde-base/kdebindings-ruby
22 > kde-base/kvtml-data
23 > kde-base/smoke
24 > media-plugins/mytharchive
25 > media-plugins/mythbrowser
26 > media-plugins/mythgallery
27 > media-plugins/mythgame
28 > media-plugins/mythmovies
29 > media-plugins/mythmusic
30 > media-plugins/mythnetvision
31 > media-plugins/mythnews
32 > media-plugins/mythweather
33 > x11-themes/mythtv-themes
34 >
35 > Is there any reason to leave such ebuildless directories?
36 >
37 > Thanks!
38 >
39 > --
40 >
41 >  Sergei
42
43 Let's get this script added to http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@×××××.com>