Bug 942759 – dev-util/shadowman: `eselect compiler-shadow clean all` keeps removing /usr/lib/distcc/bin compatibility symlink

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Whitlock 2024-11-02 11:53:30 UTC]

sys-devel/distcc installs a symlink at /usr/lib/distcc/bin for Portage compatibility, but then subsequently upgrading any installed compiler (sys-devel/gcc, sys-devel/clang) runs `eselect compiler-shadow clean all` during pkg_postrm, which deletes that symlink and breaks Portage's distcc support.

Maybe shadowman should be taught to leave that compatibility symlink in place, or better yet, maybe Portage should stop removing distcc from FEATURES if it's absent.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2024-11-03 14:55:39 UTC]

Ah, my bad; I was unaware of this "clean" function for compiler-shadow. I'll think on how to handle this.

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2024-11-03 16:18:03 UTC]

Author: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
Date:   Sun Nov 3 10:35:03 2024 -0500

    Bump to v4
    
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://github.com/projg2/shadowman/pull/3
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <[e-mail]>

commit 8863d9e64d694562f316d2b6bc742c63c35e7985
Author: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
Date:   Sun Nov 3 10:33:54 2024 -0500

    clean: skip symlinks to directories
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/942759
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <[e-mail]>


commit 7d97614f4d3811f7089bbf5db9e57c7c7f09d59c
Author: Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
Date:   Sun Nov 3 16:58:32 2024 +0100

    dev-util/shadowman: Bump to 4
    
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <[e-mail]>