I discovered this when Sam dared me to update some EAPI=6 ebuilds and fix bugs along the way. vim-plugin.eclass uses this: if [[ ${PV} != 9999* ]] ; then SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/$(_glep75 "${P}.tar.bz2") https://dev.gentoo.org/~radhermit/vim/${P}.tar.bz2" fi and as an example, app-vim/ant_menu does not override SRC_URI, and therefore, SRC_URI resolves to: https://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/ant_menu-0.5.7.1.tar.bz2 The correct url, which works, is: https://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/1d/ant_menu-0.5.7.1.tar.bz2 I cannot foresee this as a solvable problem: calculating a GLEP 75 sharded directory requires running a blake2 implementation, and running /usr/bin/b2sum cannot be done at global scope. Affected ebuilds: kde.org.eclass toolchain.eclass vim-plugin.eclass vim-spell.eclass
Sorry, copy-paste error: _glep75 was my clumsy failed attempt to fix this, the one actually in the eclass is of course: mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2
One possible solution is to give up on using the eclass for this at all, and inlining a somewhat repetitive SRC_URI in each consumer (unless it was anyways overridden).
