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Bug 4163

Summary: HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION VARS defined in eclasses are not used
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Francisco Gimeno <kikov>
Component: UnclassifiedAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Francisco Gimeno 2002-06-25 17:22:19 UTC
Hi...

I have found a little bug. I think that a lot of ppl have seen this, but anyway
I haven't seen the bug report. 
Well, first, type this... emerge search kde
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*  kde-base/kdeutils
      Latest version Available: 3.0.1.20020604
      Latest version Installed: 3.0.1.20020604
      Homepage:
      Description:
      ${DESCRIPTION}Utilities
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I could see this when making the ebook eclass and ebuilds...
--------- a piece of my eclass --------
 Copyright 1999-2000 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# Author Francisco Gimeno <kikov@fco-gimeno.com>
# Manteiner Jos
Comment 1 Francisco Gimeno 2002-06-25 17:22:19 UTC
Hi...

I have found a little bug. I think that a lot of ppl have seen this, but anyway
I haven't seen the bug report. 
Well, first, type this... emerge search kde
-----
.
.
.
*  kde-base/kdeutils
      Latest version Available: 3.0.1.20020604
      Latest version Installed: 3.0.1.20020604
      Homepage:
      Description:
      ${DESCRIPTION}Utilities
.
.
.
----
I could see this when making the ebook eclass and ebuilds...
--------- a piece of my eclass --------
 Copyright 1999-2000 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# Author Francisco Gimeno <kikov@fco-gimeno.com>
# Manteiner José Alberto Suárez López <bass@gentoo.org>
# The ebook eclass defines some default functions and variables to
# install ebooks.
ECLASS=ebook

HOMEPAGE="http://lidn.sourceforge.net"
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HOMEPAGE is really defined in the eclass ( and so, in the ebuilds that inherit it )

If you think that you can put in the ebuild: HOMEPAGE=${HOMEPAGE}, you're
wrong... :(
You can see the result with the kdeutils package. 

So... how to solving it?
-inheriting.... 
-making a good db ( by inheriting )

well... it's all.... 
If you didn't understand something, I'll asnwer in a hurry ;)

Happy Gentooing!
Comment 2 Francisco Gimeno 2002-06-25 17:23:19 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4160 ***