| Summary: | app-portage/metagen - confusing error message "!!! Nbr descs > nbr emails" | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Jonas Stein <jstein> |
| Component: | Third-Party Tools | Assignee: | Jesus Rivero (RETIRED) <neurogeek> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | sping |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Jonas Stein
2013-12-27 16:41:09 UTC
What was the command you ran? (edited the names for the bug report) # cd /usr/local/portage/sci-physics/clip # metagen -e "news@jonasstein.de" -n "J S" -d "O S is maintainer of clip4 itself, J S generated the gentoo ebuild" !!! Found 2 make.conf files, using both '/etc/make.conf' and '/etc/portage/make.conf' !!! Nbr descs > nbr emails (In reply to Jonas Stein from comment #2) > (edited the names for the bug report) > > # cd /usr/local/portage/sci-physics/clip > # metagen -e "news@jonasstein.de" -n "J S" -d "O S is maintainer of clip4 > itself, J S generated the gentoo ebuild" > !!! Found 2 make.conf files, using both '/etc/make.conf' and > '/etc/portage/make.conf' > !!! Nbr descs > nbr emails Hi Jonas, In metagen, the -d stands for description of the maintainer and it is paired with -e. Since this is so, -d descriptions are split by ',' (commas) to pair them with the emails from -e. Like: metagen -e "neurogeek@gentoo.org,otherdev@gentoo.org" -d "first dev description,second dev description" ... The error actually means that the number of descriptions (Nbr descs) is greater than the number of emails (Nbr emails), hence the Nbr descs > nbr emails error msg. Just replace the comma in your -d for something else, like a dot. Cheers, Hi Jesus, thank you for your explanation. Now I understand the message better. Would it be possible to change the message "!!! Nbr descs > nbr emails" to a clear sentence like !!! Number of recognized descriptions is greater than the number of provided mailaddresses. or !!! more descriptions than mailaddresses found Best, |