654784 – Portage masked-by warning picks up ")" if dependency in DEPEND is masked

Bug 654784 - Portage masked-by warning picks up ")" if dependency in DEPEND is masked

Summary: Portage masked-by warning picks up ")" if dependency in DEPEND is masked

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2018-05-04 01:25 UTC by Manuel Rüger (RETIRED)
Modified:	2018-05-20 08:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-05-04 01:25:50 UTC

Since ruby:2.2 got masked for removal I'm seeing this error message when running emerge:

- www-apps/redmine-3.3.5::mrueg (masked by: invalid: DEPEND: expected: dependency string, got: ')', token 2 in '/var/db/pkg/www-apps/redmine-3.3.5/DEPEND')

Content of DEPEND:
dev-lang/ruby:2.2


It should probably raise that 'dev-lang/ruby:2.2' is an invalid DEPEND instead of ')'.

Comment 1 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-05-04 02:41:28 UTC

Might be a problem with ruby-ng.eclass generated deps as well, CCing ruby@

Comment 2 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2018-05-20 08:11:32 UTC

That ebuild only supports ruby21 and ruby22. Both a now a no-op, so the dependency string will contain something like "( )" leading to the error.

I guess the ruby eclasses could provide a more sensible error when no supported ruby targets are found in USE_RUBY.