Bug 489952

Summary:	app-portage/eix should expand ebuild functions
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	igel <mathiaswe>
Component:	Third-Party Tools	Assignee:	Martin Väth <martin>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	axs, proxy-maint, xmw
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description igel 2013-10-31 10:13:52 UTC

I wrote an ebuild inheriting from versionator and set SLOT="$(get_major_version)". However, eix shows the slot of this package as "((get_major_version))" instead of the correct major version. Apparently, eix doesn't expand the function call there.

This can also be observed in the dev-util/idea-ultimate ebuilds from the "luman" overlay.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-11-22 13:04:16 UTC

Assignee: 	vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de did not match anything

Comment 2 Martin Väth 2013-11-23 01:04:21 UTC

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> Assignee: 	[...] did not match anything

Sorry, I had to change my email recently.


Concerning the original bug: This is known to fail with the quick and secure but only heuristic cache method "parse" (or "parse*") and cannot be fixed.

Use a reliable method like "ebuild" (or "ebuild*") or - better - setup your system to use metadata: See the SPEEDUP section in the eix manpage.