Bug 881843 – games-board/domination-1.1.1.6-r2 is a binary package but the ebuild attempts to build it

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fedja Beader 2022-11-19 02:19:01 UTC]

Given that the ebuild does call java build functions, I infer that this is a bug and not intended (otherwise I would suggest a rename to domination-bin).

>>> Compiling source in /tmp/portage/games-board/domination-1.1.1.6-r2/work/Domination ...                                                                                       
java-pkg-2_src_compile: build.xml not found so nothing to do.                                                                                                                    
>>> Source compiled.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Fedja Beader 2022-11-19 02:31:46 UTC]

Created attachment 833573 [details]
build/install log

[Comment 2 Jonas Stein 2022-11-19 11:36:50 UTC]

the -bin is just to distinguish the source code package from the binary package IFF there are both. I fully agree, this is not ideal and misleading.

There had been discussions about how to improve the situation see:
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/25db0027e000ab6a85f8c2535a42f502
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/3e7f28e32dfdbd7dd94ce4ff704c8e4f

I close it because it is not a bug, but a (bad?) specification.

[Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens 2022-11-19 11:54:13 UTC]

^ agreed that it shouldn't be renamed, although that the ebuild is trying to compile it when it's prebuilt is silly

so I'll keep the bug open as a reminder whenever someone looks at this package