Bug 567054 – repoman behavior: handling of missing distfiles

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Robin Johnson 2015-11-28 23:07:56 UTC]

This is similar to bug 116677, but some tweaks are needed for helping infra cases.

The git->rsync scripts re-generate manifests because of ChangeLogs (and $Id$ strings soon).  

However, some developers have been committing new ebuilds without the related distfile updates; in the CVS era, these Manifests would have gone to users without the distfile updates regardless, but now the error is caught at the infra level (and blocks the infra git->rsync).

This causes the re-generation process to try and fetch the distfiles, which fails (as it doesn't have write access to the distdir). It also should NOT happen because the developer has not verified the correct checksum for the distfiles.

I would like a new repoman option that can control the behavior regarding missing distfiles.

--manifest-missing-distfiles=fetch (default if mydo in ["manifest,digest","fetch","unpack"])
--manifest-missing-distfiles=error (warn & fail, default if mydo=manifest-check)
--manifest-missing-distfiles=warn (warn, but do not fail)
--manifest-missing-distfiles=ignore (do not warn or fail)

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2015-11-29 08:22:18 UTC]

warn & ignore would imply re-creating the Manifest with still missing DIST entries?

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2015-11-30 06:50:36 UTC]

If updates are needed (eg ChangeLogs), yes, warn & ignore would leave the missing DIST lines missing.

[Comment 3 Sam James 2022-07-12 03:18:42 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.