If /etc/portage/make.conf exists and /etc/make.conf does not exist. euse will not detect that /etc/portage/make.conf exists unless the file contains a USE="..." statement. If only /etc/portage/make.conf exists, then euse should use that file for making USE flag changes
Six months without even a comment, /etc/portage/make.conf is now the default, and it's still broken. <sigh> ($>> is the third line of my bash prompt, which also includes a blank first line. The second line is omitted here as extraneous.) --- $>>euse -i xattr ERROR: make.conf does not exist $>>cat /etc/portage/make.conf source /etc/portage/make/master $>>cat /etc/make.conf cat: /etc/make.conf: No such file or directory $>>cat /etc/portage/make/master source /etc/portage/make/cflags source /etc/portage/make/collision-ignore source /etc/portage/make/features source /etc/portage/make/fs source /etc/portage/make/ldflags source /etc/portage/make/log source /etc/portage/make/makeopts source /etc/portage/make/mirrors source /etc/portage/make/net source /etc/portage/make/use source /etc/portage/make/use.expand source /etc/portage/make/other source /etc/portage/make/layman $>> --- The actual USE flags are in /etc/portage/make/use, but that shouldn't matter for a simple euse -i, which doesn't actually write anything to make.conf anyway. =:^( I know enough not to try actually SETTING USE flags via euse with that sort of setup, but euse -i should still work to query descriptions! For just checking a package's USE flag description and status, I use equery u, but here I wanted to see which packages had their own customized description, and how it differed from the global description, if any. euse -i USED to give me that sort of info. I guess not any more. =:^(
It's been fixed in gentoolkit-9999, it just needs to be released. # cat /etc/make.conf cat: /etc/make.conf: No such file or directory # euse -i xattr global use flags (searching: xattr) ************************************************************ [- ] xattr - Adds support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata)
Nevermind the previous comment, this is not fixed.
Okay, this is now fixed in git. euse will now work properly even with your setup, (although you would need to do some manual cleanup when done). I will try to have a new release out shortly, however, real life work is currently kicking my butt. # cat /etc/portage/make.conf source /etc/portage/make/master source /etc/portage/make/use # cat /etc/portage/make/use USE="icu ipv6 mmx semantic-desktop sse sse2 \ -cups -ldap" # ./euse -i -g xattr global use flags (searching: xattr) ************************************************************ [- ] xattr - Adds support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata) # ./euse -E ipv6 WARNING: Use flag "ipv6" is already enabled globally # ./euse -D ipv6 Removing flag "ipv6" from make.conf Adding flag "-ipv6" to make.conf /etc/portage/make.conf was modified, a backup copy has been placed at /etc/portage/make.conf.euse_backup # emerge -pv wireshark These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/wireshark-1.8.2-r3 USE="caps geoip gtk pcap ssl zlib -adns -doc -doc-pdf -gcrypt -ipv6* -kerberos -libadns -lua -portaudio -profile -python (-selinux) -smi" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB # cat /etc/portage/make.conf source /etc/portage/make/master source /etc/portage/make/use USE="icu mmx semantic-desktop sse sse2 -cups -ldap -ipv6" # ./euse -E ipv6 Removing flag "-ipv6" from make.conf Adding flag "ipv6" to make.conf /etc/portage/make.conf was modified, a backup copy has been placed at /etc/portage/make.conf.euse_backup # emerge -pv wireshark These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/wireshark-1.8.2-r3 USE="caps geoip gtk ipv6 pcap ssl zlib -adns -doc -doc-pdf -gcrypt -kerberos -libadns -lua -portaudio -profile -python (-selinux) -smi" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
(In reply to comment #4) > Okay, this is now fixed in git. euse will now work properly even with your > setup, (although you would need to do some manual cleanup when done). Thanks. And sorry if my first comment sounded a bit cross. I just think the announcement of the change to the stages and the news item came with too little time to make a push and get things like this fixed /before/ the change, thus not exposing stable users and newbies to the potential breakage. While we knew it was /going/ to happen... someday... by the time we knew /now/ was the time to test and to push fixes, it was too late, and stable users and newbies have been needlessly exposed to problems. But AFAIK you weren't the one that pushed that, so I've no reason to be cross at you, or anyone actually scrambling to get out the fixes now, and I think it came across as if I was. For that I do apologize. On the positive side, I believe the -I/--info-installed option is new since the last time I actually looked at the docs, which was probably when I first started using euse -i to lookup USE flag descriptions, many years ago now. Now I have a new toy to play with... or at least I do when that release comes out. =:^)
This was released in gentoolkit-0.3.0.7
