Bug 566424

Summary:	libtool.eclass: Move patches into a separate package with distfiles
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	chewi, esigra, qa, tsmksubc
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/589ca5e9d1000478a0dc4f2aa83b7453
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	373349

Description Michał Górny archtester

2015-11-21 20:57:11 UTC

The mentioned eclass (+ epunt_cxx from eutils.eclass) abuses repository structure by putting a large number of files inside eclass/ subdirectory. Most of those files are never used on most of Gentoo systems yet propagated uncompressed. Furthermore, this is the only consumer of ECLASSDIR which can never work correctly with multiple repositories.

We would really prefer if ELT-patches were moved to a properly versioned and manifest-covered tarball, and libtool.eclass would add an appropriate DEPEND against it. Furthermore, the package could be made to filter unnecessary patches during install to save space. In fact, even some of the more complex eclass logic could be moved to an external patcher tool.

Comment 1 Michael 'veremitz' Everitt 2017-08-11 03:42:23 UTC

@mgorny:

Is this now resolved - sure looks like it?

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2017-08-11 05:06:43 UTC

Sure.