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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:01:10
Message-Id: 1337770801.14325.0.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds! by Markos Chandras
1 El mié, 23-05-2012 a las 10:31 +0100, Markos Chandras escribió:
2 > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3 > > El mié, 23-05-2012 a las 06:39 +1000, Michael escribió:
4 > >> On 2012-05-22 03:46, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
5 > >> > On May 20, autools.eclass was changed to no longer inherit eutils, see
6 > >> > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.133&r2=1.134
7 > >> >
8 > >> > Relying on autotools.eclass for your eutils needs was always a terrible
9 > >> > idea, but a few ebuilds did it anyway. Those ebuilds are now *broken*
10 > >> > since they can no longer use epatch. See bug #416847 for an example.
11 > >> >
12 > >> > Check your ebuilds to make sure you inherit eutils in anything that uses
13 > >> > epatch!
14 > >> >
15 > >> > -Alexandre Rostovtsev.
16 > >> >
17 > >> >
18 > >> >
19 > >> Since eutils inherits multilib and user, the breakage extends beyond epatch.
20 > >> For example, I just saw bug #417153, where a user reported failed calls
21 > >> to enew{user,group}.
22 > >>
23 > >>
24 > >>
25 > >
26 > > The autotools.eclass change should probably be reverted until things are
27 > > properly checked I think (and I will do it tomorrow if nobody disagrees)
28 >
29 > It is far too late to do that. What is done is done. Let try and fix
30 > what is still broken
31 >
32 > Regards,
33 > Markos
34 >
35 >
36
37 But we still have no idea what kind of commands provided by eutils and
38 eclasses inheritted by it are now missing, epatch usage was fixes,
39 enewgroup/user will probably be done but... other missing commands could
40 still appear in the tree :|

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