36322 – eutils.eclass overwrites DESCRIPTION

Bug 36322 - eutils.eclass overwrites DESCRIPTION

Summary: eutils.eclass overwrites DESCRIPTION

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-12-22 14:52 UTC by Tom Payne (RETIRED)
Modified:	2003-12-22 22:05 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Payne (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-22 14:52:31 UTC

v1.74 of eutils.eclass overwrites the DESCRIPTION variable

This means that, for example:

DESCRIPTION="This is my description"
inherit eutils

doesn't work -- you have to inherit eutils before setting DESCRIPTION.

Some eclasses need variables set before they are inherited. I like to set up all my variables in my ebuild and then have a single inherit line, but eutils breaks this.

Please edit eutils.eclass to not overwrite DESCRIPTION.

Thanks,

Tom

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-22 22:05:01 UTC

you inherit before you do anything else in ebuilds, read the docs/policy, it should be in there somewhere