Bug 442786

Summary:	repoman does not validate metadata.xml USE description restrictions
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	Repoman	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	infra-bugs
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	445274

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-11 17:20:55 UTC

But portage does, or at least the tree serving code infra uses does.

This means that repoman lets you commit metadata.xml files that will stop the generation of the tree for rsync access, and that's not good.

Brian and Jeremy can probably explain this better than me.

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2012-11-13 20:49:35 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> But portage does, or at least the tree serving code infra uses does.

Well, not any special code, just egencache.

> 
> This means that repoman lets you commit metadata.xml files that will stop
> the generation of the tree for rsync access, and that's not good.
> 
> Brian and Jeremy can probably explain this better than me.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-11-14 03:18:41 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=118db4184de67450ec7118f1607b3f8c8ed1ec9e

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-11-29 23:54:29 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.32 and 2.2.0_alpha143.