Bug 858965 – [gentoo-clang] Ebuild failures occuring in global scope

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen 2022-07-18 18:41:21 UTC]

Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'gentoo-
clang' 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/gentoo-clang.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 2022-08-01 12:28:22 UTC]

ping

[Comment 2 Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen 2022-08-16 13:01:24 UTC]

ping

[Comment 3 Alexander Bilyak 2022-08-17 18:51:37 UTC]

(In reply to Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen from comment #2)
> ping

Hey Thomas!
Sorry for not replying earlier.
Unfortunately I don't have much time to maintain this repo. I'll do my best to fix it next weekend.
I'll post here once that is done.
Cheers

[Comment 4 Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen 2022-08-18 08:37:31 UTC]

(In reply to Bilyak Alexander from comment #3)
> Sorry for not replying earlier.
> Unfortunately I don't have much time to maintain this repo. I'll do my best
> to fix it next weekend.
> I'll post here once that is done.
> Cheers

No problem, thanks for the input :-) No rush on fixing it on my part. I'll just let be the bug stay open until it's done, I won't remove the it.

[Comment 5 Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen 2022-09-19 13:12:43 UTC]

ping

[Comment 6 Alexander Bilyak 2022-10-01 00:21:34 UTC]

(In reply to Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen from comment #5)
> ping

Hello again

Sorry for keeping you waiting.
I am on it now. Will try to fix it this weekend.

[Comment 7 Alexander Bilyak 2022-10-02 17:58:34 UTC]

Hey there!

It's been a log time since I have touched this project last time.
And looks like Gentoo is already far ahead of me providing patches that fix using clang system-wide: https://bugs.gentoo.org/408963 .

I think at this point there is no sense for me to continue this work alone in a stand alone overlay, but rather to join others in their work to make clang as system-wide compiler.

Sorry to say that, but I guess it is a time to archive this repo and remove it from overlay list.

Alex

[Comment 8 Michał Górny 2022-10-03 05:53:22 UTC]

Thanks for letting us know and thanks for all your work.  We appreciate all the help we can get with getting clang support in better shape!

[Comment 9 Larry the Git Cow 2022-10-03 05:53:38 UTC]

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

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/commit/?id=371c414cda206825169b2dcc45078c2e0ebbc4a8

commit 371c414cda206825169b2dcc45078c2e0ebbc4a8
Author:     Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-10-03 05:52:26 +0000
Commit:     Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-10-03 05:52:26 +0000

    repositories: Remove gentoo-clang per author's request
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/858965
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <[e-mail]>

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