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On 2012-05-22 03:46, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: |
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> On May 20, autools.eclass was changed to no longer inherit eutils, see |
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> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.133&r2=1.134 |
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> Relying on autotools.eclass for your eutils needs was always a terrible |
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> idea, but a few ebuilds did it anyway. Those ebuilds are now *broken* |
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> since they can no longer use epatch. See bug #416847 for an example. |
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> Check your ebuilds to make sure you inherit eutils in anything that uses |
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> epatch! |
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> -Alexandre Rostovtsev. |
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Since eutils inherits multilib and user, the breakage extends beyond epatch. |
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For example, I just saw bug #417153, where a user reported failed calls |
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to enew{user,group}. |