From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B83C1381F3 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FE4AE0A4F; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:04:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porcupinefactory.org (pawelc.siec.idealan.pl [178.212.147.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA34DE09FB for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porcupinefactory.org (unknown [192.168.2.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by porcupinefactory.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9AC13B3 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:04:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:04:22 +0200 From: "P.C." To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Broken ebuilds Message-ID: <20131015190422.6f2570f4@porcupinefactory.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.19; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6b7525e8-0919-4117-9a1d-93c48a57d452 X-Archives-Hash: ea8fb9f13284fbe5e0dd39586dd269c5 Hi, I've been trying to set up a Gentoo system using an older version of the portage tree [1]. Most of it goes well, but some ebuilds stopped merging correctly. Namely, it's Python 2.7. While merging, it requests the following file: http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/python-gentoo-patches-2.7.3-1.tar.bz2 which is a 404, therefore forcing me to install Python manually. Is that "ebuild decay" intentional? How long I can expect ebuilds to stay useful? Before someone suggests I should upgrade to current snapshot - my use case depends on pkgcore which doesn't support newer portage tree. Is this broken ebuild a bug? Cheers, P.C. [1] Portage tree from 2013-02-07 http://git.calculate.ru/?p=calculate/portage.git;a=snapshot;h=65adf3c525b50d70792d5c89814a17a7712447fc;sf=tgz