Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting)

[Michael Mol]

On 04/05/2013 04:44 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> libpng 1.6 is in portage, but temporarily without KEYWORDS, pending on
> testign and this conversion, help would be much appericiated with
> converting the tree to use automatic rebuilds for the upgrade
>
> Because there is binary-only SLOT="1.2" of libpng, none of these are
> correct:
>
> $ grep -r 'media-libs/libpng.*:=' */*/*.ebuild
> app-misc/tracker/tracker-0.14.4.ebuild:    >=media-libs/libpng-1.2:=
> app-misc/tracker/tracker-0.14.5.ebuild:    >=media-libs/libpng-1.2:=
> app-misc/tracker/tracker-0.16.0.ebuild:    >=media-libs/libpng-1.2:=
> app-misc/tracker/tracker-9999.ebuild:    >=media-libs/libpng-1.2:=
> media-gfx/digikam/digikam-3.0.0.ebuild:    media-libs/libpng:=
> media-gfx/digikam/digikam-3.1.0.ebuild:    media-libs/libpng:=
> media-plugins/gst-plugins-gl/gst-plugins-gl-0.10.3.ebuild:
>>=media-libs/libpng-1.4:=
> media-plugins/gst-plugins-libpng/gst-plugins-libpng-1.0.5.ebuild:RDEPEND=">=media-libs/libpng-1.4:="
>
> media-plugins/gst-plugins-libpng/gst-plugins-libpng-1.0.6.ebuild:RDEPEND=">=media-libs/libpng-1.4:="
>
> www-client/chromium/chromium-27.0.1453.12.ebuild:    media-libs/libpng:=
> www-client/chromium/chromium-27.0.1453.3.ebuild:    media-libs/libpng:=
> www-client/chromium/chromium-9999-r1.ebuild:    media-libs/libpng:=
>
> They should all be :0= to avoid matching the :1.2 SLOT.
>
> Plus some hundreds are completely without subslotting:
>
> $ grep -r 'media-libs/libpng' */*/*.ebuild |grep -v ':.*='
> output -> http://bpaste.net/show/89268/
>
> Thanks,
> Samuli
>

I'd love to help, but I haven't done much at all with ebuild munging. If
there's a list of basic translation instructions that would work for
most ebuilds, I could certainly knock off a few.