Bug 499178 – dev-util/perf - SRC_URI should use KERNEL_URI from kernel-2.eclass (or allow .xz kernel tarballs)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Denis Sokolovsky 2014-01-25 00:37:34 UTC]

Probably dev-util/perf ebuild should resolve distribution file name to .xz archive, as it does by every kernel ebuild, instead of .bz2.

So, giving you have installed sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 3.12 and 3.13, you have in a distfiles:
$ ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 76384600 Nov  4 01:47 /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.12.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 77187032 Jan 20 04:59 /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.13.tar.xz

after installing dev-util/perf I got one more tarball:
$ ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 91111381 Nov  4 01:47 /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.12.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 76384600 Nov  4 01:47 /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.12.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 77187032 Jan 20 04:59 /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.13.tar.xz

[Comment 1 Denis Sokolovsky 2014-01-25 00:39:36 UTC]

And is it possible to make dev-util/perf sloted? And do some wrapper to automatic choose version depending on running kernel?

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2014-02-07 07:45:08 UTC]

(In reply to Denis Sokolovsky from comment #1)

perf should be backwards compatible so there should be no need for slots.  if it does break, then you should report the issue upstream so they can fix it.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2014-02-07 07:52:54 UTC]

perf-3.13.1 now uses tar.xz in SRC_URI