Bug 361133 – Remove old-style virtual/dev-manager

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2011-03-29 14:35:09 UTC]

See tracker bug 350792.

virtual/dev-manager
   packages:
      sys-apps/baselayout-vserver
      sys-freebsd/freebsd-sbin
      sys-fs/devfsd
      sys-fs/static-dev
      sys-fs/udev

Please convert to a new-style virtual.

This is probably the most complicated old-style virtual (and therefore it's also the last one I'm filing a bug for). Different providers are preferred in different subprofiles:

   profiles/base, profiles/hardened:
      sys-fs/udev

   profiles/uclibc/*/2.4:
      sys-fs/devfsd

   profiles/features/gcc2:
      sys-fs/static-dev

   profiles/targets/vserver:
      sys-apps/baselayout-vserver

Don't know what is the best solution here; maybe even a new USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN is needed here.

Please leave this bug open, even if there's no immediate solution.

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-04-04 13:18:38 UTC]

>    profiles/uclibc/*/2.4:
>       sys-fs/devfsd
> 
>    profiles/features/gcc2:
>       sys-fs/static-dev

Kernel 2.4, and gcc 2.x ?   I doubt these are of any real use, but there for historical reasons.  

I propose we remove any profiles that are still for Linux 2.4, or GCC 2.x

[Comment 2 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2011-04-04 13:44:23 UTC]

baselayout-vserver can be tree-cleaned, together with the vserver profiles. they are deprecated for ages ...

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2011-04-04 15:52:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> >    profiles/uclibc/*/2.4:
> >       sys-fs/devfsd
> > 
> >    profiles/features/gcc2:
> >       sys-fs/static-dev
> 
> Kernel 2.4, and gcc 2.x ?   I doubt these are of any real use, but there for
> historical reasons.  

I'd guess that package order in virtual/dev-manager will be the one of the least problems for someone trying to use these profiles. Besides, udev ebuilds contain a blocker against 2.4 linux-headers.

(In reply to comment #2)
> baselayout-vserver can be tree-cleaned, together with the vserver profiles.
> they are deprecated for ages ...

And sys-freebsd/freebsd-sbin is uniquely selected by KEYWORDS, so package order doesn't matter for it.

Looks like we could have a very simple solution then, namely a new-style virtual with
  RDEPEND="|| ( sys-fs/udev
       sys-fs/devfsd
       sys-fs/static-dev
       sys-freebsd/freebsd-sbin )"
?

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-04-09 08:34:22 UTC]

+  09 Apr 2011; Samuli Suominen <[e-mail]>
+  +default/linux/x86/gcc2/deprecated, +default/linux/x86/vserver/deprecated:
+  Mark default/linux/x86/gcc2 and default/linux/x86/vserver for deletion wrt
+  #361133.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2011-04-09 15:01:08 UTC]

Created attachment 269153 [details]
proposed new-style virtual

So sys-apps/baselayout-vserver is also gone, thanks ssuominen. I'm going to commit attached ebuild in one week from now.

It should be in base-system and bsd herds, I suppose.

[Comment 6 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2011-04-12 12:07:34 UTC]

thanks for taking care of baselayout-vserver

[Comment 7 Ulrich Müller 2011-04-15 22:13:01 UTC]

Done.