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On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:42:18 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Since this is a major issue involving a lot of packages, and it needs |
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> to be fixed *quickly*, I'm forwarding the new check results to |
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> gentoo-dev. |
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> If the below list contains your package, please fix it ASAP. I will |
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> file bugs for the remaining packages then. |
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> Long story short, using := operator inside || () conditional blocks is |
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> completely forbidden and triggers random misbehavior inside package |
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> managers (Portage doesn't do exactly what you think it does). |
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Please explain in more details why this is forbidden. man 5 ebuild |
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contains nothing about this, I can't find anything in PMS also. If |
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package manager misbehaves this doesn't automatically imply that |
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ebuilds are broken (and not PM). |
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> Consider it your priority to either replace the || () block with |
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> a working solution (e.g. USE flags), or remove the := operator. |
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What if package contains: |
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|| ( cat/foo:= cat/bar:= ) |
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That is, it can work with either foo or bar, but needs to be |
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rebuild on subslot changes. Are you suggesting to add USE flags |
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for each alternative under each || () clause? This is ridiculous |
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if foo and bar are drop-in replacements of one another. And |
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dropping := will just break stuff if foo or bar contain more than |
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single subslot. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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