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>>>>> On Sun, 01 Aug 2021, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> I can't find much documentation on the 'eapi' file found in many of the |
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> profile directories. Several of the ones in |
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> profiles/arch/{amd64,sparc,mips} all report '5', and this aligns with the |
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> mips 17.0 profile under default/linux. Since EAPI 5 is deprecated, should |
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> this file be edited to be at least EAPI 6 or 7, or is it a relic of the past |
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> and really just needs to be tossed out? |
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EAPIs 6, 7, and 8 don't come with any changes related to profiles, |
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therefore updating the EAPI in profiles won't have any benefits. We can |
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leave it at 5, for the time being. |
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(EAPI 8 has a change in the updates directory, but that will only affect |
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the eapi in the top-level profiles directory, not individual profiles. |
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Also, we're at least two years away from updating that.) |
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We keep track of profile EAPIs here: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Package_Manager_Specification#Council_approval_and_use_in_Gentoo_repository |
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> If EAPI support is really needed in the profiles, it seems like there has to |
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> be a better mechanism to codify it in a more central location versus |
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> scattering ~390 of the things across the base profiles directory. |
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It's required by PMS, and it's not inherited from the parent profile, |
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so there's nothing that could be done about it for now. |
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$ for d in $(find . -type f ! -path './desc/*' ! -path './updates/*' ! -name eapi -printf '%h\n' | sort -u); do [[ -f ${d}/eapi ]] || echo ${d}; done |
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./arch/amd64/lib32 |
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./arch/mips/mipsel |
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./arch/ppc64/big-endian |
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./default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/prefix |
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./default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/prefix |
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./default/linux/arm/17.0/armv7a/prefix |
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./default/linux/arm64/17.0/prefix |
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./default/linux/ppc64le/17.0/prefix |
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./default/linux/x86/17.0/prefix |
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./features/prefix/standalone/kernel-2.6.16+ |
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./features/prefix/standalone/kernel-2.6.32+ |
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./prefix/darwin/macos/features/fsf-gcc-ld64 |
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./prefix/darwin/macos/features/fsf-gcc-nold |
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Looks like we have a few profiles that are missing the eapi file, so |
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effectively they are still at EAPI 0. |
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Ulrich |
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