On 05/21/2012 12:04 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 21-05-2012 a las 13:46 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev escribió: >> On May 20, autools.eclass was changed to no longer inherit eutils, see >> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.133&r2=1.134 >> >> Relying on autotools.eclass for your eutils needs was always a terrible >> idea, but a few ebuilds did it anyway. Those ebuilds are now *broken* >> since they can no longer use epatch. See bug #416847 for an example. >> >> Check your ebuilds to make sure you inherit eutils in anything that uses >> epatch! >> >> -Alexandre Rostovtsev. >> >> >> > > Looks like ebuilds not inheriting eutils directly even using epatch are > a lot as I have seen running: > grep inherit $(grep -r epatch */*/*.ebuild| cut -d: -f1) | grep -v > eutils > > Maybe they should be checked and a repoman warning should be added when > an ebuild is using epatch without inheriting eutils directly, otherwise > this problem could reappear if some other eclass no longer inherit it in > the future :-/
Yeah, we have a similar check for inherit of prefix.eclass: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=b583812101f1156c553385effcd9dbee0b751087 -- Thanks, Zac
