Bug 74138 – some ebuilds have wrong description due to eclass inheritance

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Alexandru Toma 2004-12-11 14:34:25 UTC]

emerge -S Based\ on\ the\ eutils\ eclass

That says it all.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-12-12 00:48:31 UTC]

file bugs against specific packages ... ive already filed a bunch myself which arent resolved

the gtk-engines-* ones arent really ebuild bugs but something that needs to be worked out with the eclasses/portage inheritence stuff

[Comment 2 Alexandru Toma 2004-12-12 03:58:32 UTC]

> file bugs against specific packages ... ive already filed a bunch myself which
> arent resolved
I'll do that. Could you also give me some keywords so that I can find the bugs you have filed. Searching for "description" did not reveal any relevant bugs.

> the gtk-engines-* ones arent really ebuild bugs but something that needs to be
> worked out with the eclasses/portage inheritence stuff
If I move the DESCRIPTION="Motif-like theme engine for GTK+" line from gtk-engines-notif, for example, after the inherit line then the description is the correct.

This is the problem with all the other ebuilds. The DESCRIPTION is overwritten with the one from the inherited eclass. I don't see how the problem with the gtk-engines-* ebuilds is any different from the others.

[Comment 3 Alexandru Toma 2004-12-12 04:02:26 UTC]

May I also point you to bug #36322 in which you yourself said: "you inherit before you do anything else in ebuilds, read the docs/policy, it should be in there somewhere." For all these ebuilds, including the gtk-engines-* ones, the DESCRIPTION field is before the inherit line.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-12-12 13:01:34 UTC]

for some reason i remember the gtk-engines doing it 'the right way' and DESCRIPTION still coming out wrong

but i guess you're right ... bugs should be filed for the gnome team to fix their gtk-engines ebuilds