Bug 832923

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

Description Michał Górny archtester

2022-02-08 12:43:13 UTC

Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'nx'
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/nx.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 Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen 2022-04-01 07:59:32 UTC

ping.

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-04-08 13:05:53 UTC

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

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/commit/?id=72a21edaf2b173940b44290e5f09046660ef8138

commit 72a21edaf2b173940b44290e5f09046660ef8138
Author:     Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <t@laumann.xyz>
AuthorDate: 2022-04-08 11:53:34 +0000
Commit:     Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-04-08 13:04:15 +0000

    repositories.xml: remove 'nx' overlay
    
    Long-standing CI failures. Repository hasn't been updated since 2018.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/832923
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <t@laumann.xyz>
    Signed-off-by: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org>

 files/overlays/repositories.xml | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)