Bugzilla Bug 55371

If you install devtodo-0.1.17, it creates a symlink called tdl.  This
overwrites an installation of another todo-list manager called tdl!  This is
particularly unfortunate, since you might install devtodo if deciding to switch
from tdl, and you then have no way to get to your old todo lists ...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge tdl
2. emerge devtodo
3. try to run the original tdl program!

>>> /usr/bin/tda -> devtodo
>>> /usr/bin/tdd -> devtodo
>>> /usr/bin/tde -> devtodo
>>> /usr/bin/tdr -> devtodo
>>> /usr/bin/todo -> devtodo


These are the only symlinks I see in devtodo

I do, however, see a manpage tdl.1.gz crash there.

it definitely creates a tdl symlink.  if you type man todo, it should list it
there as well.  i did 'emerge sync' and devtodo didn't get updated.

# grep tdl /var/log/portage/2360-devtodo-0.1.17.log 
checking for stdlib.h... yes
                 from /usr/include/stdlib.h:25,
cd /var/tmp/portage/devtodo-0.1.17/image//usr/bin; for i in tda tdr tdd tdl
todo; do ln -s -f devtodo $i; done
cd /var/tmp/portage/devtodo-0.1.17/image//usr/share/man/man1; for i in tda tdd
tde tdl todo; do ln -s -f devtodo.1 $i.1; done
fixing man page symlink: tdl.1.gz
removing old symlink: tdl.1

show me the output of qpkg -l devtodo

# qpkg -l devtodo
app-misc/devtodo-0.1.17 *
CONTENTS:
/etc
/etc/devtodo
/etc/devtodo/todorc
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/devtodo
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/tdrec.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/scripts.tcsh.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/scripts.sh.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/TODO.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/QuickStart.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/AUTHORS.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/ChangeLog.gz
/usr/share/doc/devtodo-0.1.17/todorc.example.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/devtodo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/todo.1.gz -> devtodo.1.gz 1088785441
/usr/share/man/man1/tda.1.gz -> devtodo.1.gz 1088785441
/usr/share/man/man1/tdd.1.gz -> devtodo.1.gz 1088785441
/usr/share/man/man1/tde.1.gz -> devtodo.1.gz 1088785441
/usr/bin/tda -> devtodo 1088785441
/usr/bin/tdd -> devtodo 1088785441
/usr/bin/tde -> devtodo 1088785441
/usr/bin/tdl -> devtodo 1088785441
/usr/bin/tdr -> devtodo 1088785441
/usr/bin/todo -> devtodo 1088785441
/usr/share/man/man1/tdl.1.gz -> devtodo.1.gz 1088785441
/usr/share/man/man1/tdr.1.gz -> devtodo.1.gz 1088785441

# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -DNDEBUG -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://gentoo.mirrored.ca http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X X509 Xaw3d aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apm artswrappersuid avi berkdb bonobo caps cdr chroot cjk crypt cscope cups dga directfb djbfft doc dvb dvd emacs encode escreen esd etwin expat f77 fbcon flac fltk foomaticdb gcj gdbm ggi gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg justify ladcca lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska mbox md5sum mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpeg4 mpi msn nas ncurses nls nntp objc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png pnp portaudio ppds pwdb python quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl slang slp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype v4l v4l2 video_cards_ati128 vim-with-x wmf x86 xchattext xgetdefault xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

the tdl command of devtodo doesn't get that much use at all, and it can also be
accessed via 'devtodo --link', so I think we are safe in removing it's symlink.

sounds good.  perhaps patching the manpage to explain that the tdl symlink was
removed to prevent conflicts with tdl would be good too (so that you don't
later get bug reports about _that_!)

Created an attachment (id=35672) [edit]
devtodo-0.1.17-r1.ebuild

Created an attachment (id=35673) [edit]
devtodo-notdl.patch

Cheers.

looks fine.  i can't test this right now, but if it works for you, great.

thanks!

fixed in cvs.

robbat2,

Just curious (and mainly asking so that I know for future reference), but shouldn't sys-devel/automake have been kept in DEPEND since automake gets run after patching the Makefile.am's?

automake is one of the core system packages, i don't think it really matters.