Bug 29456

Summary:	textutils-2.1-r1 ebuild file incomplete / damaged
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin bene <martin.bene>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin bene 2003-09-23 13:45:05 UTC

emerge -u textutils does NOT build/install new  binaris; it does however 
uninstall the old one leaving a broken system.

ebuild file textutils-2.1-r1.ebuild is quite small (481 bytes) vs 1246 forthe 
previos version and looks incomplete to me.

Does not happen on systems with default install because textutils is one of the 
3 "orphaned" packages:

sys-apps/fileutils-4.1.11-r1
sys-apps/sh-utils-2.0.15
sys-apps/textutils-2.1

which are neither a part of system nor in the world file and thus are never 
automatically updated with emerge -upD world. I'll add a seperate entry for 
that..

Comment 1 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-23 14:42:03 UTC

It's indeed a broken ebuild. Reassigning to seemant who commited it.

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-23 14:52:37 UTC

it is neither broken nor incomplete.  the purpose of the empty ebuilds is to have a dependency on *coreutils* which replaces all three.

Comment 3 Martin bene 2003-09-23 22:46:09 UTC

Meaning it takes quite a bit of bad luck to get a broken system:
 - rebuild all installed packages before Sep. 12
 - build coreutils before textutils etc.
 - emerge -u textutils after availability of the empty ebuild, resulting in removal of /bin/cat etc.

agreed, not much that can be done about it now.
And yes, I actually did manage to break my system that way.