Bug 207772 – dev-ruby/transaction-simple specifies compression for file in /usr/share/doc

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2008-01-27 22:36:34 UTC]

You shouldn't specify the full path of the file since the user can specify whether to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the files.  Instead refer to where the file can be found.

References for why we should do this can be found at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169772
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/

[Comment 1 Richard Brown (RETIRED) 2008-01-28 07:58:07 UTC]

You don't mention which of the three ebuilds it is, or whether it's all of them.

[Comment 2 Luca Barbato 2008-01-28 12:07:56 UTC]

transaction-simple-1.1.1

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-01-28 12:21:13 UTC]

Fixed by removing the (unused, outdated and unneeded) 1.1.1 ebuild.

[Comment 4 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2008-01-28 15:53:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You don't mention which of the three ebuilds it is, or whether it's all of
> them.
> 

You seriously have to be kidding me.  In the future please try to be slightly helpful and look for the problem I mentioned.  It wasn't something very difficult to look for.  A simple grep would have shown you the offending ebuild[s].

Thanks

[Comment 5 Richard Brown (RETIRED) 2008-01-28 16:28:20 UTC]

You seriously have to be kidding me. In the future please try to file slightly helpful bug reports and mention the ebuild that causes the problem. It wasn't something very difficult to state. A simple version in the summary would have made the maintainer's life much easier.