Bug 448198

Summary:	dev-lang/perl/perl-5.12.4-r1 ebuild should not print missing symlinks warnings when package is removed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maxim Kammerer <mk>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Maxim Kammerer 2012-12-22 16:29:44 UTC

When removing perl package (with no more perl packages remaining), the following warnings are printed by the ebuild, coming from alternatives.eclass.

I don't see how these warnings are necessary - they were established by the package in the first place, so if the user decided to remove the package, removing the symlinks is the right thing to do, nothing to warn about. Note that the warnings below also contain /usr/share/man entries due to /usr/share/man being missing on my system when perl is removed.

 * Messages for package dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1:

 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/ptar
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/ptar.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/ptardiff
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/ptardiff.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/shasum
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/shasum.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/cpan
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/cpanp
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/cpanp.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/cpan2dist
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/cpan2dist.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/cpanp-run-perl
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/enc2xs
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/piconv
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/instmodsh
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/instmodsh.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/xsubpp
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/config_data
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/config_data.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/corelist
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/pod2usage
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/podchecker
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/podselect
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/prove
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/pod2man
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1* symlink
 * Removing dead symlink /usr/bin/pod2text
 * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1* symlink

Comment 1 Maxim Kammerer 2013-08-20 22:53:04 UTC

Ping?

Comment 2 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2014-04-24 13:56:01 UTC

It is comes from alternatives eclass, i wont fix it right now.