Rubygems ebuilds use find without path and they also use xargs instead of -exec. The incorrect use of find makes it fail i.e. on GentooFreeBSD but still this bug is not only related to BSD or ALT its a general problem that simply does not show up on linux. See this manual at the end: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/find/index.html All the ebuilds should be patched like that: - find -name '.*' -type f -print0|xargs -0 rm + find "${S}" -name '.*' -type f -exec rm '{}' \; Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge rubygems on gfbsd or on s system with no GNU-find Actual Results: > ... > * Applying rubygems-1.2.0-setup.patch ... > [ ok ] > find: illegal option -- n > find: illegal option -- a > find: illegal option -- m > find: illegal option -- e > find: .*: No such file or directory > >>> Source unpacked. > ... These messages appear somewhere in the log but the merge does not fail. Expected Results: Find should locate the files and they should be removed. I checked for 1.2.0 the qlist output for the patched version and the original was the same. So there where no files found/deleted in version 1.2.0, maybe the statement is superfluous anyway.
I grepped through the tree for "find -" and this mistake seems pretty common. There are some hits on packages that are linux-only like sys-kernel/linux-headers or media-gfx/bootsplash-themes. But there are also a lot of hits on packages that might be of interest for other OSs where find without path may not work. i.e: dev-util/netbeans dev/libs/openssl dev-java/jexcelapi These are only examples, actually there are quite some packages having that bug. For a complete list i suggest you to grep for yourself. This is kind of a meta-bug and i dont know how to handle that so i reported it along with this one.
"-name '.*'" should be superfluous.
No. That would match "*" instead of ".*". But as i said the whole thing seems to be superfluous, at least for 1.2.0.
I wonder which version of rubygems shipped with these dot-files, since I could not find any... I've removed the find from all stable and new versions, the other versions will be removed shortly anyway. Thanks for reporting!
