Bug 533532 – sys-kernel/*/Manifest: deblob-* and deblob-check-* entries prone to outdatedness

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2014-12-25 18:26:09 UTC]

kernel-2.eclass:

if [[ ${KV_MAJOR} -ge 3 ]]; then
    DEBLOB_PV="${KV_MAJOR}.${KV_MINOR}"
fi

DEBLOB_A="deblob-${DEBLOB_PV}"
DEBLOB_CHECK_A="deblob-check-${DEBLOB_PV}"
DEBLOB_HOMEPAGE="http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/"
DEBLOB_URI_PATH="download/releases/LATEST-${DEBLOB_PV}.N"
if ! has "${EAPI:-0}" 0 1 ; then
    DEBLOB_CHECK_URI="${DEBLOB_HOMEPAGE}/${DEBLOB_URI_PATH}/deblob-check -> ${DEBLOB_CHECK_A}"
else
    DEBLOB_CHECK_URI="mirror://gentoo/${DEBLOB_CHECK_A}"
fi
DEBLOB_URI="${DEBLOB_HOMEPAGE}/${DEBLOB_URI_PATH}/${DEBLOB_A}"


This code results in downloading deblob-* and deblob-check-* from LATEST-* subdirectories of http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/ and including only branch instead of specific version in names of downloaded files.
This results in outdatedness of entries in sys-kernel/*/Manifest when GNU Linux-libre project updates these files for newer versions in given branches.

[Comment 1 Mike Pagano 2015-01-14 13:26:16 UTC]

Removing deblob support is looking better and better.

[Comment 2 Mike Pagano 2015-01-14 13:30:47 UTC]

Deblob removed from gentoo-sources as it is broken.  If someone wants to create a deblob-sources and maintain it that is fine.

If someone wants to request deblob support, they can open a new bug, assign it to kernel-misc and provide patches.