Bug 229085

Summary:	repoman grabs USE_EXPAND variables from base profile only
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Peter Volkov (RETIRED) <pva>
Component:	Repoman	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	wolf31o2
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-23 17:59:06 UTC

Repoman "sees" USE_EXPAND variables only if they were defined in profile which was pointed by /etc/make.profile or if it is defined in base profile (not sure).

To reproduce create profiles/some_profile/make.defaults file with USE_EXPAND variable add desc/use_expand.desc in overlay too. repoman will still issue warnings about IUSE.invalid on this variable even if it is described in desc/use_expand.desc.

[21:34:42] <zmedico> looking at the code... it will only work if the USE_EXPAND is in the base profile
[21:34:46] <zmedico> so that's kind of a bug
[21:35:14] <zmedico> can it only grabs from /profiles/desc/ in PORTDIR, not overlays atm
[21:35:39] <zmedico> this all shouldn't be too hard to fix

[21:39:38] <zmedico> well it grabs USE_EXPAND from whatever your /etc/make.profile profile is
[21:39:44] <zmedico> which is totally broken of course
[21:40:05] <zmedico> so USE_EXPAND will be whatever it gets from traversing that
[21:40:47] <zmedico> then it takes those values and uses them when parsing $PORTDIR/profiles/desc
[21:41:09] <zmedico> it only looks for files for the use_expand values it knows

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:18:39 UTC

repoman support has been removed per bug 835013.

Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.