On Monday 16 March 2009 14:35:15 Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:34 +0200, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > While working on my overlay, I stumbled on an issue where qfile refused
> > to acknowledge an installed file as being part of my package.
> >
> > Looking into q's implementation (portage-utils-0.1.29), I see:
> >
> > amit0 portage-utils-0.1.29 # grep -A 2 next_entry
> > ./libq/vdb_get_next_dir.c next_entry:
> > ret = readdir(dir);
> > if (ret == NULL) {
> > --
> > goto next_entry;
> > if (strchr(ret->d_name, '-') == NULL)
> > if ((strcmp(ret->d_name, "virtual")) != 0)
> > goto next_entry;
> >
> > I encountered this since I used a new category, which only contained a
> > single word. Adding a hyphen and a 2nd token solved my issue, and now
> > qfile knows the file's association.
> >
> > Is this assumption, that category should be "stringA-stringB" documented
> > somewhere?
>
> We made that assumption for portage-utils as they can be used on a
> device which has no $PORTDIR at all. So when there is no categories file
> that exists we fell back to the rules that have been working well for
> the past %d years.
>
> We changed that behavior however a while ago. I thought this was in the
> tree. But I guess not if you are hitting it.
>
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-projects/portage-utils/libq/vdb
>_get_next_dir.c?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
we should do a new release already
-mike
