Bug 128960 – euse from gentoolkit uses readlink -f

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-04-05 13:54:04 UTC]

Currently the euse command uses the "readlink -f" command that does not work on non-GNU systems.

An alternative is to use app-admin/realpath as done by eselect which works on other systems too.

[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2006-04-05 14:05:28 UTC]

readlink -f rocks++; Please don't add new deps to gentoolkit unless we 
are actually one of these systems that lacks gnu-coreutils 

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-04-05 14:10:53 UTC]

I suppose it can be a || ( app-admin/realpath sys-apps/coreutils ) dep like for eselect and selected the right one either at runtime or at installation time.

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-04-19 16:58:46 UTC]

Created attachment 84988 [details, diff]
gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4-realpath.patch

Proposed patch that might work as intended.

Also, the dependency can add sys-freebsd/freebsd-bin to the list as that package provide a /bin/realpath already.

[Comment 4 Benigno B. Junior (RETIRED) 2006-04-19 18:08:53 UTC]

Hmm, it just made me remember the portage's quickpkg, which has the same issue for us:
quickpkg:           x=$(readlink -f $x)

[Comment 5 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2006-07-31 20:55:58 UTC]

Fixed in subversion revision 307

[Comment 6 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2007-01-08 21:17:19 UTC]

This was fixed with the release of gentoolkit-0.2.3_pre2.