Bug 778689 – [vdr-devel] Ebuild failures occuring in global scope

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michał Górny 2021-03-27 12:55:44 UTC]

Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'vdr-devel'
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/vdr-devel.html

In particular, please look for highlighted error messages.

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 Larry the Git Cow 2021-04-05 08:49:54 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/vdr/devel.git/commit/?id=e8284ebb8eb1d139afed5e84b1f611f3bd8b9d12

commit e8284ebb8eb1d139afed5e84b1f611f3bd8b9d12
Author:     Joerg Bornkessel <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2021-04-05 08:49:29 +0000
Commit:     Joerg Bornkessel <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2021-04-05 08:49:29 +0000

    media-plugins/vdr-skindesigner: bump, eapi=7
    
    bump to latest version from upstream
    upstream has moved to new project home on github
    this bump, with eapi=7, fix ebuild failures
    occuring in global scope
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/778689
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.14, Repoman-3.0.2
    Manifest-Sign-Key: 0x68C51DE6D770E4A6!
    Signed-off-by: Joerg Bornkessel <[e-mail]>

 media-plugins/vdr-skindesigner/Manifest            | 20 +++++++++----------
 ...-0.0.7.ebuild => vdr-skindesigner-1.2.8.ebuild} | 23 +++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)