in many of the app-admin/rex ebuilds, there is the pattern: MODULE_A="Rex-${PV}.tar.gz" This is redundant due to the existence of support for MY_PN in perl-module.eclass, who's purpose is to override PN before it gets composed into SRC_URI and the archive extraction name. This is apparently made more complicated due to the use of invalid values for MODULE_VERSION= in all the ebuilds, which would set MODULE_VERSION to a very bad value ( for instance, rex 1.0.0 has MODULE_VERSION=0.53.1 , which is an obvious artefact of an ancient package ). So, here, the explicit declaration does two things: - Sets a correct name for the archive token - And overrides the bad default also hard-coded in MODULE_VERSION Given that ${PV} is pre-normalised, it is safer to just write: MODULE_AUTHOR=JFRIED MY_PN=Rex And omit declaring MODULE_VERSION entirely, and then everything will work as expected, and PN will naturally be passed though into SRC_URI etc. I have myself applied all the relevant changes and build/installed all current versions with these changes, a visible diff can be seen at: https://github.com/kentfredric/gentoo/pull/2 Or via git: remote: https://github.com/kentfredric/gentoo.git branch: patch-rex I have also in this branch updated/tweaked metadata.xml to have both "cpan" and "cpan-module" identifiers in <upstream><remote-id> values for tracking purposes.
The part regarding variable usage seems to be already fixed in recent ebuilds (thanks!). A fix for metadata.xml has been attached on bug 614286 as poart of version bump to 1.5.0.
Marking closed now, this is mostly fixed as all but one version have the weird syntax removed, and the metadata is also up-to-date. commit: b8788bbe6e0eaef92f83ee61eef2707beeb52a3d author: 2017-03-30 18:06:06 +0000 Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> commit: 2017-03-31 10:14:11 +0000 Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> gpg-key: E854324B1366A820 app-admin/rex: Bump to version 1.5.0 Ebuild & metadata changes submitted by Ferenc Erki - Update metadata - Fix keywords - Add dep on Data-Validate-IP Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614286 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/559178 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.4, Repoman-2.3.2
