Our automated repository checks [1] have detected that the 'salfter' 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 or have other serious QA violations. 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/salfter.html In particular, please look for highlighted error messages. 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
This is the complete error log referenced below: salfter {'description': {'en': "Scott Alfter's ebuilds"}, 'homepage': 'https://gitlab.com/salfter/portage', 'name': 'salfter', 'owner': [{'email': 'scott@alfter.us', 'name': 'Scott Alfter', 'type': 'person'}], 'quality': 'experimental', 'source': [{'type': 'git', 'uri': 'https://gitlab.com/salfter/portage.git'}], 'status': 'unofficial'} $ pmaint sync salfter Already up to date. *** syncing salfter *** synced salfter * Sync succeeded $ git log --format=%ci -1 $ git show -q --pretty=format:%G? HEAD $ pmaint regen --use-local-desc --pkg-desc-index -t 1 salfter * Cache regenerated successfully There's nothing in there that looks like an error. Is this a false alarm? If not, is there something that indicates which ebuild is to blame?
Before receiving this bug, I did notice that the mediaelch ebuild was triggering an error pertaining to it still using EAPI 5 when I went to update one of my machines. I tweaked it to use EAPI 6 and committed the change. Might that have been what the repo checks were complaining about?
It's possible. I could check git log but since it's happy now, I don't think it's worth the effort.
The bug seems to be fixed in the repository. Closing.