Bug 556012

Summary:	sys-apps/portage shouldn't save all repeated messages if they are the same
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2015-07-27 11:21:05 UTC

At my tinderbox I got today this (one time should be enough I think)

mail-client/cone-0.90-r1 : QA: prepare QA: other


QA: prepare
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
QA: other
QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
           may exhibit random runtime failures.
rfc1035qa.c:230:40: warning: argument to ‘sizeof’ in ‘memset’ call is the same pointer type ‘struct in6_addr *’ as the destination; expected ‘struct in6_addr’ or an explicit length [-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
myserverremoteconfig.C:145:11: warning: converting ‘false’ to pointer type ‘mail::account*’ [-Wconversion-null]
Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.
Homepage: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/

Comment 1 Adam Feldman gentoo-dev

2015-07-30 21:56:33 UTC

With a more explicit, direct run of ebuild cone-0.90-r1:

>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/cone-0.90-r1/work/cone-0.90 ...
 * Applying cone-0.84.20100819-aspell-automagic.patch ...                                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * Applying cone-0.86-skip-rfc2045-test.patch ...                                                                                                                [ ok ]
 * Applying cone-0.90-gnutls3.patch ...                                                                                                                          [ ok ]
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/cone-0.90-r1/work/cone-0.90/unicode' ...
 * Running libtoolize --install --copy --force --automake ...                                                                                                    [ ok ]
 * Running aclocal ...                                                                                                                                           [ ok ]
 * This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
 * update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
 * when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
 * Running autoconf --force ...                                                                                                                                  [ ok ]
 * Running autoheader ...                                                                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * Running automake --add-missing --copy --foreign --force-missing ...                                                                                           [ ok ]
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/cone-0.90-r1/work/cone-0.90/numlib' ...
 * Running libtoolize --install --copy --force --automake ...                                                                                                    [ ok ]
 * Running aclocal ...                                                                                                                                           [ ok ]
 * This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
 * update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
 * when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.

(and continues on)

Note, that it is running eautoreconf, libtoolize, and aclocal for every directory, hence the spammed message, one each time it runs and detects the file.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-08-03 14:13:53 UTC

Well... I am not sure what could be done in portage side... maybe some kind of code being able to detect the messages are exactly the same and, then, only recording one... ? :/