portage / eselect-compiler

On Monday I helped Ned fixing ebuilds using the following DEPEND/RDEPEND: 1 *DEPEND=" || ( app-admin/eselect-compiler >=sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.1 )" Problems only popped up because app-admin/eselect-compiler got masked due to numerous, unresolved bugs (and Jeremy/eradicator being MIA again). But that also revealed a bug within portage on handling the || ( a b ), where a is being masked. So solar and I had being working on updating those ebuilds that use the above syntax (or something similar, some are using other versions, thanks Sven for the hint/reminder). ...

August 16, 2014 · 1 min · 155 words · christian