Bug 613494 – [raiagent] Ebuild failures occuring in global scope

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michał Górny 2017-03-22 07:30:08 UTC]

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The repository owner is not registered on Bugzilla
Owner: ['[e-mail]']
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Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'raiagent'
repository contains ebuilds that trigger fatal errors during the cache
regeneration. This usually means that the ebuilds call 'die' in global
scope indicating serious issues.

Global-scope failures prevent the ebuild not only from being installed
but also from being properly processed by the Package Manager. Since
metadata can not be obtained for those ebuilds, no cache entries are
created for them and the Package Manager needs to retry running them
every time it stumbles upon them. This involves both a serious slowdown
and repeating error output while performing dependency resolution.

The most common cause of global-scope failures is use of removed or
banned APIs in old ebuilds. In particular, this includes eclasses being
removed or removing support for old EAPIs. Nonetheless there are also
other issues such as performing illegal operations in global scope
(external program calls), malformed bash in ebuilds or malformed
metadata.xml.

The error log for the repository can be found at:

  https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/repos/raiagent.html

In particular, please look for highlighted '!!! ERROR' and '!!! caught
exception' lines. The former usually mean failures coming from eclasses
and the ebuild itself, while exceptions usually mean malformed ebuilds
or metadata.xml.

While at it, please consider fixing global-scope 'use' call warnings (if
any). They are not fatal but are considered a serious QA violation.
'use' functions must not ever be called outside of phase functions.

Please fix the issue ASAP, possibly via removing unmaintained, old
ebuilds. We reserve the right to remove the repository from our list if
we do not receive any reply within 4 weeks.

[1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Repository_mirror_and_CI

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2017-04-05 06:57:55 UTC]

Cecil, are you owner of this repository?

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2017-06-02 06:15:09 UTC]

Ping.

[Comment 3 Cecil Curry 2017-07-17 05:38:33 UTC]

> Cecil, are you owner of this repository?

None other! I appear to have registered a Gentoo Bugzilla account under my disposable Yahoomail rather than non-disposable Gmail address. (I have no idea why. These memories have all faded in time like tears in the rain.)

I'll address that immediately. Get it... address? O.K., I'll stop now.

> Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'raiagent' repository contains ebuilds that trigger fatal errors during the cache regeneration.

Well, that puts a damper on Sunday evening. *sigh*

I'll remove the offending "media-video/devede" package immediately. Since Devede has been superseded by DevedeNG (which Portage already provides), nothing is lost.

Thanks for the prompt heads-up on both issues, Michał. And... sorry about this. I'll endeavour to regularly clean the overlay in the future.

[Comment 4 Cecil Curry 2017-07-17 06:21:56 UTC]

Very well, Bugzilla. I've now registered "[e-mail]" and will use this as my default account going forward.

I've also removed the offending "media-video/devede" package at the following overlay commit: https://github.com/leycec/raiagent/commit/17c506ec6b53d894500a406e0966a0c051eeee4f

Thanks again, Michał. If any further complications arise, just publicly shame me at my Github issue tracker again and I'll promptly attend to it. You're awesome!

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2017-07-17 07:27:02 UTC]

Ok, thanks.

[Comment 6 Michał Górny 2017-07-17 07:27:16 UTC]

The bug seems to be fixed in the repository. Closing.