Bug 599060 – sys-apps/portage: egencache --update-use-local-desc catches lang="fr" use flag descs for sys-boot/refind

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Raymond Jennings 2016-11-06 13:50:15 UTC]

Something slurped up the french USE flag descriptions instead of the english USE flag descriptions from sys-boot/refind/metadata.xml when it autogenerated /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc

I found out when I tried to track down a unicode related crash in app-portage/flaggie.

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2016-11-06 14:28:49 UTC]

The French descriptions are also on master rsync, so CC-ing infra-bugs@ to copy the patch once it's in Portage.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2016-11-06 14:29:40 UTC]

Hmm, it also affects pkgcore and therefore gentoo-mirror.

[Comment 3 Felix Janda 2016-11-06 14:32:00 UTC]

egencache uses parse_metadata_use() from portage.xml.metadata, and from
looking at it (in sys-apps/portage-2.3.1), it seems that if the same
use flag appears in different <use> tags (even with different "lang"
attribute), only the last one in the metadata.xml will appear in the
dict returned by parse_metadata_use().

I tested that for sys-boot/refind reordering the English and French
<use> flags in metadata.xml fixes the descriptions in use.local.desc.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2016-11-06 20:41:32 UTC]

Patch posted for review:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/fb54fe1e82de885368c62abce674502a
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/67

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2016-11-07 21:25:16 UTC]

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=db0dddfda68fbeed2dc6c48d9f8168fc2b42b8da

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2017-02-10 18:52:17 UTC]

Fixed in portage-2.3.3.