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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> El mié, 23-05-2012 a las 06:39 +1000, Michael escribió: |
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>> On 2012-05-22 03:46, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: |
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>> > On May 20, autools.eclass was changed to no longer inherit eutils, see |
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>> > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.133&r2=1.134 |
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>> > Relying on autotools.eclass for your eutils needs was always a terrible |
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>> > idea, but a few ebuilds did it anyway. Those ebuilds are now *broken* |
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>> > since they can no longer use epatch. See bug #416847 for an example. |
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>> > Check your ebuilds to make sure you inherit eutils in anything that uses |
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>> > epatch! |
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>> > -Alexandre Rostovtsev. |
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>> Since eutils inherits multilib and user, the breakage extends beyond epatch. |
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>> For example, I just saw bug #417153, where a user reported failed calls |
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>> to enew{user,group}. |
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> The autotools.eclass change should probably be reverted until things are |
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> properly checked I think (and I will do it tomorrow if nobody disagrees) |
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It is far too late to do that. What is done is done. Let try and fix |
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what is still broken |
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Regards, |
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