Bug 245305

Summary:	repoman should not allow to remove every ebuild and leave package directory
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Component:	Repoman	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/TomWij/gentoo-portage-next/tree/repoman-245305
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-02 18:50:58 UTC

betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage/kde-base $ ls plasma
ChangeLog  CVS/  files/  Manifest  metadata.xml

If a dev tries to rm all the ebuilds repoman should not allow it.

Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo i686)

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-03-01 11:23:01 UTC

Technically, a package directory without ebuilds is valid:

"A package directory contains the following: Zero or more ebuilds. [...]"
https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-340004.3

IIRC, the Perl team has a legitimate usage case for that.