Bug 418473

Summary:	[tracker] virtual/awk porting
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) <junghans>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) <junghans>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jcallen, nikoli
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	415689, 419555, 419559, 424137, 425744, 426624, 426628, 455638, 455640, 455642, 455644, 455646, 455648, 455650, 455652, 455654, 455656, 455658, 455660, 455662, 455664, 455666, 455668, 455672, 455674, 455676, 455678, 455680, 455682, 455684, 455686, 455688, 455692, 455696, 455698, 455710, 455712, 455714, 455716, 455718, 455720, 455722, 455726, 455728, 455730, 455732, 455734, 455736, 455738, 455740, 455742, 455744, 455746, 455748, 455786, 456690, 456692
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Description Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-01 04:09:16 UTC

This bug is used for the tracking of packages broken by virtual/awk usage instead of sys-apps/gawk

 - File a NEW bug for each issue and make it BLOCK this one.  
 - Please keep this tracker free from comments.  Discussion should take place
on the relevant bugs

Comment 1 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-04 02:40:58 UTC

The one true awk by Brian W. Kernighan.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 23:27:01 UTC

keep in mind that many packages are stupid and have bogus dependencies.  they should be fixed to not have the dependency at all rather than blindly changing to virtual/awk.