Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'gentoo- playground' repository contains ebuilds that trigger fatal errors during the cache regeneration. This usually means that the ebuilds call 'die' in global scope indicating serious issues. Global-scope failures prevent the ebuild not only from being installed but also from being properly processed by the Package Manager. Since metadata can not be obtained for those ebuilds, no cache entries are created for them and the Package Manager needs to retry running them every time it stumbles upon them. This involves both a serious slowdown and repeating error output while performing dependency resolution. The most common cause of global-scope failures is use of removed or banned APIs in old ebuilds. In particular, this includes eclasses being removed or removing support for old EAPIs. Nonetheless there are also other issues such as performing illegal operations in global scope (external program calls), malformed bash in ebuilds or malformed metadata.xml. The error log for the repository can be found at: https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/repos/gentoo-playground.html In particular, please look for highlighted '!!! ERROR' and '!!! caught exception' lines. The former usually mean failures coming from eclasses and the ebuild itself, while exceptions usually mean malformed ebuilds or metadata.xml. While at it, please consider fixing global-scope 'use' call warnings (if any). They are not fatal but are considered a serious QA violation. 'use' functions must not ever be called outside of phase functions. Please fix the issue ASAP, possibly via removing unmaintained, old ebuilds. We reserve the right to remove the repository from our list if we do not receive any reply within 4 weeks. [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Repository_mirror_and_CI
Ping.
Further evidence of the poor state of this repo, it also has ebuilds using python_parallel_foreach_impl which was deprecated in Dec 2014 & removed in May 2017: http://data.gpo.zugaina.org/gentoo-playground/dev-python/pyorbit/pyorbit-2.24.0-r1.ebuild For bonus points this ebuild's version matches gentoo's so an unsuspecting user of this gentoo-playground repo gets the bad ebuild automatically. +1 for removal from published repositories list.
My apologies for this. If you want to remove it for now that's quite understandable. Otherwise I will do some *serious* culling.
Okay, I've deleted nearly everything, leaving just my Chromium ebuilds for now. I'll gradually restore packages I'm actually maintaining or on-request.
Those are broken as well. I'm going to wait a week more in case you're planning to fix them.
I've removed all but the most recent Chromium ebuild so hopefully the breakage went with them. If that version is also broken in some way I'll remove it too and create a new release soon.
You need to set "masters = gentoo" in your layout.conf to be able to inherit eclasses from the gentoo repo
layout.conf (In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #7) > You need to set "masters = gentoo" in your layout.conf to be able to inherit > eclasses from the gentoo repo done
The bug seems to be fixed in the repository. Closing.