Bug 309963 – Update devmanual for automatic generation of use.local.desc

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-03-17 16:41:50 UTC]

Thomas Kahle spotted this flaw in the devmanual and I prepared a patch, which will follow.

[Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-03-17 16:42:15 UTC]

Created attachment 224023 [details, diff]
Explain that use.local.desc is regenerated manually

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2010-03-18 13:37:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=224023) [details]
> Explain that use.local.desc is regenerated manually

It still says (in line 135): "All USE flags must be described in either use.desc or use.local.desc". Shouldn't the word "either" be dropped, if we want to allow local USE flag descriptions to supersede global ones? See also discussion in bug 235708.

[Comment 3 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-03-18 14:59:23 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 273607 ***

[Comment 4 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-03-18 14:59:52 UTC]

Damn, yes, ulm, you are right.  It should.  Have no time for this today or tomorrow.

[Comment 5 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-03-18 15:00:04 UTC]

*** Bug 273607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-03-23 23:05:49 UTC]

Created attachment 224987 [details, diff]
Updated patch

Revised patch.

[Comment 7 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-06-09 16:28:40 UTC]

I'd made more clear that in case USE flag is describe both in use.desc and metadata.xml these descriptions should not contradict each other and that global USE flag descript still applies even in such case. Also note bug 235708 (that I closed right now).

[Comment 8 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-08-10 14:29:23 UTC]

some version of this was committed.

http://sources.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=devmanual.git;a=commit;h=a3b5a189862d7cc74a5f3676988048953c502933

I'll close this bug then even though I'm not in QA team.