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Bug 523496 - sys-process/procps-3.3.10 upstream tarball generated incorrectly, requires autotools installed
Summary: sys-process/procps-3.3.10 upstream tarball generated incorrectly, requires au...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2014-09-23 05:00 UTC by Mikael Magnusson
Modified: 2014-09-23 05:37 UTC (History)
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Description Mikael Magnusson 2014-09-23 05:00:37 UTC
# ls -l *(@)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 32 Sep 22 15:23 compile -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/compile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 37 Sep 22 15:23 config.guess -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/config.guess
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 35 Sep 22 15:23 config.sub -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/config.sub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 32 Sep 22 15:23 depcomp -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/depcomp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 35 Sep 22 15:23 install-sh -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/install-sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 35 Sep 22 15:23 ltmain.sh -> /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 32 Sep 22 15:23 missing -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/missing


I guess they forgot to say -i to their auto* so it just put symlinks. I noticed this because I don't have 1.14 installed, but obviously half the point of autotools is that the person using the package doesn't need to have it installed at all. Possible resolutions are: running eautoreconf in the ebuild; depending on autotools-1.14; masking and bugging upstream; something else?
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-09-23 05:37:52 UTC
+  23 Sep 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> Manifest:
+  Recreated source tarball without symlinks to auto* tools. Thanks to Mikael
+  Magnusson who reported this issue in bug #523496.
+
Thanks for pointing that out. FYI, the tarball is no official upstream tarball as procps-ng upstream unfortunately does not provide any source tarballs at all.