Bug 283967 – DEPEND in package.env is using colons for sepreating both packages and SLOT, if colons are used in EANT_GENTOO_CLASSPATH

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2009-09-07 09:56:00 UTC]

if one uses 

EANT_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="cglib:2.1,commons-cli:1,commons-net,javamail,log4j,xpp3,xstream"

where SLOTS are sperated by colons it is transformed to

DEPEND="cglib:2.1:commons-cli:1:commons-net:javamail:log4j:xpp3:xstream"

in package.env, which makes the launcher fail with

java_config_2.Errors.UnexistingPackageError: Package cglib was not found!

Using a hyphen works well and is transformed to

DEPEND="cglib-2.1:commons-cli-1:commons-net:javamail:log4j:xpp3:xstream"

[Comment 1 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) 2011-07-15 09:30:15 UTC]

Created attachment 280101 [details, diff]
Fix the behaviour for eapis other than 0 1

The substitution is done for EAPI=1, not for later ones.

Do the same for other ones.

[Comment 2 Patrice Clement (RETIRED) 2015-06-15 00:17:49 UTC]

I remember Chewi and wltjr discussing this problem in #gentoo-java. :)

[Comment 3 James Le Cuirot 2015-06-15 08:06:18 UTC]

Although the original intention was to allow colons in EANT_GENTOO_CLASSPATH (and it did work in EAPI 1), a grep of the tree shows that this was only ever done in about 5 packages. wltjr has argued that the colon syntax is more consistent with the ebuild's DEPEND but I don't want to end up in a situation where half the ebuilds use one syntax and half the ebuilds use the other. Better to just nip this in the bug and ban the colon syntax now. It's a little confusing for the first 10 seconds but really not that hard to get your head around.