Bug 455778 – repoman is incompatible with the funtoo-overlay

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) 2013-02-06 03:23:18 UTC]

Created attachment 338046 [details]
Funtoo's profile.desc

Running the following command(s) on Gentoo will reproduce the issue:

git clone http://git.funtoo.org/funtoo-overlay && \
cd funtoo-overlay/sys-boot/grub && \
repoman full

The error that occurs on my system is:

repoman: invalid arch: "arch" in /home/richard/devel/funtoo-overlay/profiles/profiles.desc line 16

I have attached Funtoo's profile.desc. Having no understanding of how these bits work, I cannot tell if the Funtoo stuff needs to be changed or if repoman should be extended.

I asked zmedico in #gentoo-portage on freenode if filing a bug for the portage team was appropriate in this situation and he confirmed that it was.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2013-02-06 05:55:59 UTC]

Repoman uses the values from profiles/arch.list to validate the first column of profiles.desc. I guess maybe funtoo has patch repoman to make it handle profiles.desc differently?

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2013-02-06 05:59:58 UTC]

Whatever the difference is, we could use a setting in metadata/layout.conf to make repoman handle profiles.desc differently. That's how we typically handle extensions like this.

[Comment 3 Richard Yao (RETIRED) 2013-02-06 19:27:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Repoman uses the values from profiles/arch.list to validate the first column
> of profiles.desc. I guess maybe funtoo has patch repoman to make it handle
> profiles.desc differently?

Funtoo has no such patch and profiles/arch.list is unchanged from Gentoo's main tree.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Whatever the difference is, we could use a setting in metadata/layout.conf
> to make repoman handle profiles.desc differently. That's how we typically
> handle extensions like this.

That will likely require a specification of the semantics of the extension. I hope that drobbins will find time to provide that.

[Comment 4 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2017-03-16 01:33:32 UTC]

With the stage 3 re-write of the repoman code, repoman should be fully plug-able and configurable.  This can include addtional checks and plug-in modules to perform them. or even just a reduced set of checks.  It will all be controlled via the repository in the metadata directory.

[Comment 5 Sam James 2022-07-12 03:18:20 UTC]

repoman support has been removed per bug 835013.

Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.