Accordingly to the doc HOMEPAGE Package's homepage. If you are unable to locate an official one, try to provide a link to freshmeat.net or a similar package tracking site. Never refer to a variable name in the string; include only raw text. Next list of ebuilds have subvariable HOMEPAGE inside HOMEPAGE variable. Recursion? vv@vv-Latitude-E5520 ~/work/own/ruby/portage3/source $ grep -r ' ${HOMEPAGE}' /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/* | grep 'E=' /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-java/pdfbox/pdfbox-0.7.3-r2.ebuild: elog "USE=doc, or ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/perltidy/perltidy-20101217.0.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.590.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.580.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.570.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.560.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.550.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.540.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/mogilefs-server/mogilefs-server-2.530.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/libintl-perl/libintl-perl-1.200.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://guido-flohr.net/projects/libintl-perl ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gtk2-traymanager/gtk2-traymanager-0.50.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gtk2-trayicon/gtk2-trayicon-0.60.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gtk2-spell/gtk2-spell-1.40.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gtk2-spell/gtk2-spell-1.30.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gtk2-gladexml/gtk2-gladexml-1.7.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gtk2-ex-formfactory/gtk2-ex-formfactory-0.670.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.exit1.org/Gtk2-Ex-FormFactory/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gnome2-wnck/gnome2-wnck-0.160.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/gnome2-perl/gnome2-perl-1.42.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/Nmap-Parser/Nmap-Parser-1.210.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://nmapparser.wordpress.com/ http://code.google.com/p/nmap-parser/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/Nmap-Parser/Nmap-Parser-1.200.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://nmapparser.wordpress.com/ http://code.google.com/p/nmap-parser/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/HTML-Mason/HTML-Mason-1.480.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.masonhq.com/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/File-RsyncP/File-RsyncP-0.700.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://perlrsync.sourceforge.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/Data-Stag/Data-Stag-0.110.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://stag.sourceforge.net/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/CursesWidgets/CursesWidgets-1.997.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.digitalmages.com/perl/CursesWidgets/index.html ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/Cache-Memcached/Cache-Memcached-1.290.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.danga.com/memcached/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-perl/CGI-FormBuilder/CGI-FormBuilder-3.50.100.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.formbuilder.org/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-util/autodia/autodia-2.140.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk/opensource/autodia/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/dev-util/autodia/autodia-2.100.0-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk/opensource/autodia/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/eclass/kernel-2.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-8.75.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-8.65.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-8.60.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-8.770.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/media-libs/exiftool/exiftool-8.50.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.620.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://makemaker.org ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.590.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://makemaker.org ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.580.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://makemaker.org ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://makemaker.org ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/sys-apps/ack/ack-1.96.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://betterthangrep.com/ ${HOMEPAGE}" /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage/sys-apps/ack/ack-1.94-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://betterthangrep.com/ ${HOMEPAGE}" vv@vv-Latitude-E5520 ~/work/own/ruby/portage3/source $ Also there ebuilds with PN/PV vars inside homepage variable but I am not sure if you accept this as bug(s) Reproducible: Always
Under >> Also there ebuilds with PN/PV vars inside homepage variable but I am not sure if you accept this as bug(s) I mean app-emacs/nxml-gentoo-schemas/nxml-gentoo-schemas-20111129.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/${PN}/" app-misc/egads/egads-0.9.5.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.securesoftware.com/download_${PN}.htm" dev-db/mysql-super-smack/mysql-super-smack-1.2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/${MY_PN}/" dev-embedded/sgpp-lite-arm-uclinux-bin/sgpp-lite-arm-uclinux-bin-2010.09.58.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/${CPU}" dev-embedded/sgpp-lite-arm-linux-bin/sgpp-lite-arm-linux-bin-2010.09.50.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/${CPU}" dev-embedded/sgpp-lite-arm-eabi-bin/sgpp-lite-arm-eabi-bin-2010.09.51.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/${CPU}" dev-java/skinlf/skinlf-6.7.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.l2fprod.com/" dev-java/simplyhtml/simplyhtml-0.13.1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net" dev-java/jreleaseinfo/jreleaseinfo-1.3.0-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net/" dev-java/jpf/jpf-1.5.1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net/" dev-java/hamcrest-core/hamcrest-core-1.1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/${MY_PN}/" dev-java/batik/batik-1.7-r2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/${PN}/" dev-java/backport-util-concurrent/backport-util-concurrent-3.1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${SF_PN}.sourceforge.net/" dev-lang/v8cgi/v8cgi-0.9.2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/${PN}/" dev-lang/cilk/cilk-5.4.6.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/${PN}/" dev-perl/inline-files/inline-files-0.62.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/author/DCONWAY/${MY_P}" dev-perl/cache-mmap/cache-mmap-0.09.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/author/PMH/${MY_P}" dev-perl/XML-Stream/XML-Stream-1.22.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~reatmon/${P}/" dev-perl/XML-Grove/XML-Grove-0.46_alpha-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/${MY_P}.readme" dev-perl/XML-DT/XML-DT-0.47.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/${P}/" dev-perl/Tree-Simple/Tree-Simple-1.17.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/${P}/" dev-perl/Test-Manifest/Test-Manifest-1.22.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/${P}/" dev-perl/Test-Manifest/Test-Manifest-1.21.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/${P}/" dev-perl/Template-DBI/Template-DBI-2.64.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/dist/${P}/" dev-perl/SVN-Mirror/SVN-Mirror-0.73.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CL/CLKAO/${P}.readme" dev-perl/PerlIO-via-dynamic/PerlIO-via-dynamic-0.12.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/PerlIO/${P}.readme" dev-perl/Parse-Syslog/Parse-Syslog-1.09.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~dschwei/${P}" dev-perl/Number-Format/Number-Format-1.52.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/W/WR/WRW/${P}.readme" dev-perl/Mail-ListDetector/Mail-ListDetector-1.01.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mail/${P}.readme" dev-perl/Jcode/Jcode-2.06.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/${P}.readme" dev-perl/IP-Country/IP-Country-2.23.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~nwetters/${P}/" dev-perl/IO-Interface/IO-Interface-1.03.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/dist/${P}/" dev-perl/GD-SVG/GD-SVG-0.28.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~twh/${P}/" dev-perl/File-Slurp/File-Slurp-9999.13.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~uri/${P}/" dev-perl/Event/Event-1.10.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Event/${P}.readme" dev-perl/Event/Event-1.09.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Event/${P}.readme" dev-perl/Event-RPC/Event-RPC-0.90.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.exit1.org/${PN}/" dev-perl/Devel-Cycle/Devel-Cycle-1.07.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~lds/${P}/" dev-perl/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~iroberts/${P}/" dev-perl/Class-Autouse/Class-Autouse-1.29.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/${P}" dev-perl/Class-Accessor/Class-Accessor-0.31.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~kasei/${P}/" dev-perl/CPAN-Mini/CPAN-Mini-0.562.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/${P}/" dev-perl/CPAN-Mini-Inject/CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.18.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~ssoriche/${P}/" dev-perl/Apache-DBI/Apache-DBI-1.06.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~pgollucci/${P}/" dev-php/pecl-bbcode/pecl-bbcode-1.0.3_beta1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://pecl.php.net/${PECL_PKG}" dev-python/dreampie/dreampie-1.0.3.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net/" dev-python/dreampie/dreampie-1.0.2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net/" dev-ruby/tidy_table/tidy_table-0.0.5-r2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/${PN}/" dev-ruby/tidy_table/tidy_table-0.0.5-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/${PN}/" dev-ruby/loquacious/loquacious-1.9.1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/TwP/${PN}" dev-ruby/loquacious/loquacious-1.9.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/TwP/${PN}" dev-ruby/little-plugger/little-plugger-1.1.3.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/TwP/${PN}" dev-ruby/little-plugger/little-plugger-1.1.2-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/TwP/${PN}" dev-ruby/flexmock/flexmock-0.9.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.rubyforge.org/" dev-ruby/flexmock/flexmock-0.8.11.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.rubyforge.org/" dev-ruby/actionwebservice/actionwebservice-2.3.5-r1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/${MY_OWNER}/${PN}" eclass/xemacs-packages.eclass:[ -z "$HOMEPAGE" ] && HOMEPAGE="http://xemacs.org/" eclass/ruby.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=${PN}" eclass/php-ext-pecl-r2.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://pecl.php.net/${PECL_PKG}" eclass/perl-module.eclass: HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/dist/${MY_PN:-${PN}}/" eclass/java-pkg-2.eclass: HOMEPAGE="http://commons.apache.org/${PN#commons-}/" eclass/horde.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://www.horde.org/${HORDE_PN}" kde-misc/colibri/colibri-0.2.2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=${KDE_LOOK}" media-gfx/springgraph/springgraph-79.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="${BASE_URI}" media-plugins/vdr-dummydevice/vdr-dummydevice-1.0.3.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/${PN}/" media-plugins/vdr-dummydevice/vdr-dummydevice-1.0.2.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/${PN}/" media-plugins/vdr-chanman/vdr-chanman-0.0.6.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.messinalug.org/${PN}/" media-radio/ibp/ibp-0.21.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/${PN}.html" net-mail/vqadmin/vqadmin-2.3.6.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.inter7.com/${PN}" net-p2p/smet2html/smet2html-0.1.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://ed2k-tools.sourceforge.net/${PN}.shtml" sci-biology/pysam/pysam-0.6.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/${PN} http://pypi.python.org/pypi/${PN}" sci-electronics/gplcver/gplcver-2.12a.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.pragmatic-c.com/${MY_PN}" sci-electronics/gplcver/gplcver-2.11a.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://www.pragmatic-c.com/${MY_PN}" sci-geosciences/gpxviewer/gpxviewer-0.2.0.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://blog.sarine.nl/${PN}/" sci-mathematics/fricas/fricas-1.1.6.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net/" sci-mathematics/fricas/fricas-1.1.5.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://${PN}.sourceforge.net/" sys-libs/openipmi/openipmi-1.4.14.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/${PN}/" sys-libs/openipmi/openipmi-1.4.12.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/${PN}/" sys-libs/openipmi/openipmi-1.3.18.ebuild:HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/${PN}/" vv@vv-Latitude-E5520 /dev/shm/portage3_data/portage $ Or other vars is not allowed or devmanual should be fixed
I currently see 87 packages affected by this, perhaps a repoman check would be nice. I am curious as to the reason for banning variables from $HOMEPAGE is however.
I think that the whole idea of not using variables inside HOMEPAGE is about metadata cache consistency. However, if we use variables there, that are persistent on all arches(e.g. ${P}/${PN}/${PV} and so on), i do not see problem there. But maybe i am missing something...
(In reply to Sergey Popov from comment #3) > I think that the whole idea of not using variables inside HOMEPAGE is about > metadata cache consistency. However, if we use variables there, that are > persistent on all arches(e.g. ${P}/${PN}/${PV} and so on), i do not see > problem there. > > But maybe i am missing something... It is very convenient if you have an ebuild open in and editor and you can open the homepage's URL in your browser. Likewise, if you view the ebuild via some web interface (e.g., via gitweb, or in a bug's attachment). Allowing ${PN} there would break this.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1d7554df702c0f2d111b9e14ec331f75aebe9334 commit 1d7554df702c0f2d111b9e14ec331f75aebe9334 Author: Michael Mair-Keimberger <m.mairkeimberger@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2018-03-11 17:21:27 +0000 Commit: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-03-26 19:15:40 +0000 media-plugins/vdr-pin: use HTTPS, remove Variable in HOMEPAGE Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/408917 media-plugins/vdr-pin/vdr-pin-0.1.14.ebuild | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)}
