Bug 36322

Summary:	eutils.eclass overwrites DESCRIPTION
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tom Payne (RETIRED) <twp>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom Payne (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-22 14:52:31 UTC

v1.74 of eutils.eclass overwrites the DESCRIPTION variable

This means that, for example:

DESCRIPTION="This is my description"
inherit eutils

doesn't work -- you have to inherit eutils before setting DESCRIPTION.

Some eclasses need variables set before they are inherited. I like to set up all my variables in my ebuild and then have a single inherit line, but eutils breaks this.

Please edit eutils.eclass to not overwrite DESCRIPTION.

Thanks,

Tom

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-22 22:05:01 UTC

you inherit before you do anything else in ebuilds, read the docs/policy, it should be in there somewhere