Bug 365505 – repoman: check for PROVIDE

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Ulrich Müller 2011-05-01 07:09:22 UTC]

Created attachment 271717 [details, diff]
proposed patch for bin/repoman

All old-style virtuals are gone from the tree, see URL. Attached patch adds a repoman check for the PROVIDE variable.

Maybe the checks for PROVIDE.syntax, virtual.versioned, virtual.exists, and virtual.unavailable could be removed then?

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-05-01 16:34:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Created attachment 271717 [details, diff]
> proposed patch for bin/repoman
> 
> All old-style virtuals are gone from the tree, see URL. Attached patch adds a
> repoman check for the PROVIDE variable.

Applied:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=4e02baaa767e13c3b99ddeca1e9a8a05abd30783

> Maybe the checks for PROVIDE.syntax, virtual.versioned, virtual.exists, and
> virtual.unavailable could be removed then?

Ok, everything is removed except PROVIDE.syntax:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=df15d8c67d6c9d821a5fada0063c04da9bb2bed6

We need to keep PROVIDE.syntax until we decide to completely drop backward compatibility.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2011-05-01 19:19:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We need to keep PROVIDE.syntax until we decide to completely drop backward
> compatibility.

Yes, that makes sense.

By the way, GLEP 37 (written 6 years ago) says: "Dropping of support of current style virtuals is planned for the following major version of portage (2.2.0)." ;-)

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-05-05 19:54:35 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.47 and 2.2.0_alpha31.