Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mythtv@g.o, cardoe@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:55:52
Message-Id: 20120315235944.4117be48@sf.home
1 slep noticed and reported an odd thing:
2
3 $ euse -i kate
4 ...
5 ls: cannot access /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-perl-*: No such file or directory
6 ls: cannot access /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-ruby-*: No such file or directory
7 ...
8
9 The dirs they don't contain ebuilds. Only metadata.
10 KDE team is aware and fixing their orphans.
11
12 I've decided to write a hack to find such instances in tree:
13
14 $ ./find_empty.sh ~/portage/gentoo-x86/
15 kde-base/kdeaccessibility-colorschemes
16 kde-base/kdeaccessibility-iconthemes
17 kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers
18 kde-base/kdebindings-csharp
19 kde-base/kdebindings-perl
20 kde-base/kdebindings-ruby
21 kde-base/kvtml-data
22 kde-base/smoke
23 media-plugins/mytharchive
24 media-plugins/mythbrowser
25 media-plugins/mythgallery
26 media-plugins/mythgame
27 media-plugins/mythmovies
28 media-plugins/mythmusic
29 media-plugins/mythnetvision
30 media-plugins/mythnews
31 media-plugins/mythweather
32 x11-themes/mythtv-themes
33
34 Is there any reason to leave such ebuildless directories?
35
36 Thanks!
37
38 --
39
40 Sergei

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find_empty.sh application/x-shellscript
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>