Bug 782343

Summary:	[steam-overlay] Ebuild failures occuring in global scope
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Overlays	Assignee:	Mario Kicherer <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/repos/steam-overlay.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	552950

Description Michał Górny archtester

2021-04-11 21:42:05 UTC

Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'steam-
overlay' 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/steam-overlay.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 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2021-04-18 07:34:15 UTC

*** Bug 783435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2021-04-20 21:40:16 UTC

commit 9a1249fdb3e3005041fb768af02e235c46dc4a18
Author: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 20 22:30:30 2021 +0100

    dev-libs/steam-runtime-openssl: Drop broken and obsolete package
    
    This was added for Crusader Kings II as it needed OpenSSL 1.0.1p at
    the time. As I suspected, this is no longer the case. Unfortunately it
    now has 1.0.2l statically linked instead but at least it works.
    
    Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
    Closes: https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay/issues/151
    Closes: https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay/issues/286
    Closes: https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay/issues/287
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/782343