Bug 660630 – [hacking-gentoo] Ebuild failures occuring in global scope

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michał Górny 2018-07-07 18:54:11 UTC]

Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'hacking-
gentoo' 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 or have other serious QA
violations.

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/hacking-gentoo.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.

Please note that due to technical limitations of pkgcore, the processing
stops on the first error found. Once solved, please wait ~30 minutes for
the report to refresh in case new errors may appear.

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 Max Hacking 2018-07-17 17:49:56 UTC]

All repository errors should now be resolved.

Thanks.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2018-09-04 07:05:37 UTC]

Ping.

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2018-09-04 07:07:13 UTC]

(there's more to do)

[Comment 4 Max Hacking 2018-09-09 03:30:55 UTC]

All the errors are now fixed. Seems there was a problem with our mirror script not deleting files - who knew rsync was so picky!

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2018-09-11 06:36:22 UTC]

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