Bug 484454 – distutils-r1 eclass should depend on >=sys-apps/coreutils-8.5

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Johann Schmitz (ercpe) (RETIRED) 2013-09-10 08:50:07 UTC]

Emerging distutils-r1 based ebuilds on systems with old coreutils installed (6.10-r2 in this case) failes to install the package in multibuild_merge_root due to an use of cp which isn't correct (see build.log). Updating coreutils solves the problem.

I think the eclass should introduce a dependency to sys-apps/coreutils >= 8.5 (which is the smallest, stable version atm), to enforce the update an reduce the build failures on old system.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Johann Schmitz (ercpe) (RETIRED) 2013-09-10 08:50:30 UTC]

Created attachment 358402 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2013-09-10 09:10:46 UTC]

I've added it to multibuild.eclass since that's where the function is declared. It shouldn't really hurt other multibuild users.

[Comment 3 Bruno 2013-09-18 06:35:50 UTC]

This adds an annoying runtime dependency on coreutils for lots of packages. According to this bug report the issue is build-time, thus dependency should only be build-time as well.

Please adjust eclass to DEPEND on coreutils instead of RDEPEND!

[Comment 4 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 08:14:35 UTC]

Michał, your opinion?

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2013-09-18 08:49:59 UTC]

Sorry, my bad. I have no idea why I did RDEPEND.