Bug 173417 – openssh fails to install with FEATURES="stricter"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description meyerm 2007-04-05 00:06:53 UTC]

OpenSSH fails to install when using FEATURES="stricter". As you can see, I am using a "stable"/"not-~x86"-system. How did this get into "stable"? (And should QA-bugs be reported at all?)

I am thinking about taking "stricter" out of my features (since this is already the second package after mailx which failed today)... but I like the idea of having some extra "line of quality-checking" on a 24/7-online-computer ;-) What would you suggest?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. FEATURES="stricter" emerge -u openssh

Actual Results:  
[...]
>>> Completed installing openssh-4.5_p1-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-4.5_p1-r1/image/

ecompressdir: bzip2 -f9 /usr/share/man/man1
ecompressdir: bzip2 -f9 /usr/share/man/man5
ecompressdir: bzip2 -f9 /usr/share/man/man8
strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded
   usr/sbin/sshd
   usr/lib/misc/ssh-keysign
   usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
   usr/bin/scp
   usr/bin/ssh-keygen
   usr/bin/ssh
   usr/bin/ssh-add
   usr/bin/ssh-agent
   usr/bin/ssh-keyscan
   usr/bin/sftp

 * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
 *            fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
 * dns.c:266: warning: implicit declaration of function `uuencode'


!!! ERROR: net-misc/openssh-4.5_p1-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  misc-functions.sh, line 570:   Called install_qa_check
  misc-functions.sh, line 325:   Called die

!!! poor code kills airplanes
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/net-misc:openssh-4.5_p1-r1:20070404-215159.log'.

!!! install_qa_check failed; exiting.



tatooine ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.18-hardened i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-hardened i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:30:09 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict stricter"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl berkdb caps crypt hardened ncurses nptl pam pic readline skey ssl unicode x86 xinetd zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-05 05:49:06 UTC]

Try w/ 4.6_p1-r1; and yeah, FEATURES=stricter is not intended for users.

[Comment 2 meyerm 2007-04-05 11:35:20 UTC]

I added ~x86 for openssh and tried net-misc/openssh-4.6_p1-r1. But nothing changed. After taking "stricter" out of my FEATURES installing of OpenSSH, mailx and gamin worked.

Is "stricter" just a FEATURE for future use and is currently ignored by the package maintainers? Or did something go wrong and some "bad" packages slipped through the QA-process?

Thanks :)