Bug 551222 – [heroxbd] Unavailable masters = gentoo_prefix referenced

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Michał Górny 2015-06-04 14:31:03 UTC]

The Gentoo overlay listed as 'heroxbd' specifies a master repository
that is not listed on the official repository list:

  masters = gentoo_prefix

This means that when a Gentoo user adds this repository to his system,
he will soon start seeing errors that the Package Manager can't find a
master repository. Depending on the Package Manager in use, this may
even make it impossible to use Package Manager at all.

Worse than that, since the master repository is not available on the
remote repository list, the user will have no clear way of fixing the
issue other than removing the offending repository.


Therefore, please either:

1. file a request to add the masters (gentoo_prefix) to the official
repository list, providing all the necessary details;

2. ensure that your repository can work without the offending masters
and remove them from metadata/layout.conf;

3. or let us know that the repository can't work through regular install
procedure (layman) and we should remove it.


We already sent first e-mail about the issue on 2015-05-14. Therefore,
if we receive no reply within the next 7 days (until 2015-06-11), we
will be removing the repository. Once that happens, we can re-add it
once the issue is fixed.

[Comment 1 Benda Xu 2015-06-09 10:05:23 UTC]

I would like to ask the Prefix team for suggestions.  Is gentoo_prefix supposed to be added to the official repository list?

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2015-06-09 10:51:09 UTC]

gentoo_prefix should go eventually, but we're long from there, so I guess the intermediate solution would be to make it "official".

I don't know where that list is, and I don't want people to think they can just use that tree.  If necessary, we can host overlays/layman file on different hardware to get rid of the problem too.

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2015-06-09 10:58:06 UTC]

It's in proj/api.git. Well, both heroxbd & gentoo_prefix have to be on the same list.

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2015-06-17 17:30:53 UTC]

so, how do we move forwards with this bug?

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2015-06-17 18:23:49 UTC]

I guess I remove it from the official list and you think how to provide it to your users :).

[Comment 6 Michał Górny 2015-06-18 20:25:59 UTC]

Removed. Please let us know if you find any other solution.

[Comment 7 Benda Xu 2016-05-24 01:25:14 UTC]

Hi Michał, let me reuse this bug.

I have changed the master of my overlay to gentoo.  Could you please add my overlay back to layman?

[Comment 8 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2016-05-25 03:52:04 UTC]

Fixed:

commit cb45840284475917a9c5ffe58782ca6eaab24f83
Author: Dirkjan Ochtman <[e-mail]>
Date:   Wed May 25 05:46:27 2016 +0200

    repositories: add back heroxbd overlay (fixes bug 551222)
    
    This reverts commit 3ae8f3573fc9122e95a5ef9cb4d1b1a9b116fb93.

[Comment 9 Benda Xu 2016-05-25 04:46:21 UTC]

Thanks Dirkjan!