[gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne to me:

$ alias perl-cleaner
alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg --jobs=3 --keep-going'
$ perl-cleaner      

***************************************************************************
You are supplying additional command line options for the package manager.
This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead to incorrect, incomplete,
confusing, and/or nonfunctional results. You are on your own now.
***************************************************************************

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Neil Bothwick]

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On 14 February 2015 11:33:49 GMT+00:00, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne to
> me:
> 
> $ alias perl-cleaner
> alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg --jobs=3
> --keep-going'
> $ perl-cleaner      
> 
> ***************************************************************************
> You are supplying additional command line options for the package
> manager.
> This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead to incorrect,
> incomplete,
> confusing, and/or nonfunctional results. You are on your own now.
> ***************************************************************************
> 
> -- 
> Rgds
> Peter.

Your use of -- to supply extra arguments to emerge. It means you may be using unsupported options so if it breaks, the pieces are all yours. 
-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Alexander Kapshuk]

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne to me:
>
> $ alias perl-cleaner
> alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg --jobs=3
> --keep-going'
> $ perl-cleaner
>
> ***************************************************************************
> You are supplying additional command line options for the package manager.
> This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead to incorrect, incomplete,
> confusing, and/or nonfunctional results. You are on your own now.
> ***************************************************************************
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter.
>
>
> /usr/sbin/perl-cleaner:541,544
        --)
            shift
            ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS="${ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS} $@"
            break

/usr/sbin/perl-cleaner:555,557
if [[ ! -z "${ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS}" ]] ; then
    options_warning
fi


/usr/sbin/perl-cleaner:424,435
options_warning() {
    cat << EOF_WARNING

***************************************************************************
You are supplying additional command line options for the package manager.
This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead to incorrect, incomplete,
confusing, and/or nonfunctional results. You are on your own now.
***************************************************************************


EOF_WARNING
}

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Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[bitlord]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:33:49 +0000
Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne
> to me:
> 
> $ alias perl-cleaner
> alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg
> --jobs=3 --keep-going' $ perl-cleaner      
> 
> ***************************************************************************
> You are supplying additional command line options for the package
> manager. This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead to
> incorrect, incomplete, confusing, and/or nonfunctional results. You
> are on your own now.
> ***************************************************************************
> 

You are using something which is not recommended by developers, that is
'-- <extra portage parameters>', telling perl-cleaner to pass
additional package manager parameters, not sure why is not recommended,
but it warns you, also in 'perl-cleaner --help' or man page it says it
is not recommended to do that. 

There is probably case when you can do
something wrong, but also it can be safe too passing some parameters
which don't affect build like '--ask'. 
One case which may be problematic (or not, just guessing) is --jobs=N,
what will happen if one perl module depend on the other, and they are
building at the same time?

Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 14 February 2015 12:56:09 bitlord wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:33:49 +0000
> 
> Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne
> > to me:
> > 
> > $ alias perl-cleaner
> > alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg
> > --jobs=3 --keep-going' $ perl-cleaner
> > 
> > ********************************************************************
> > ******* You are supplying additional command line options for the
> > package manager. This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead
> > to incorrect, incomplete, confusing, and/or nonfunctional results.
> > You are on your own now.
> > ********************************************************************
> > *******
> You are using something which is not recommended by developers, that
> is '-- <extra portage parameters>', telling perl-cleaner to pass
> additional package manager parameters, not sure why is not
> recommended, but it warns you, also in 'perl-cleaner --help' or man
> page it says it is not recommended to do that.
> 
> There is probably case when you can do something wrong, but also it
> can be safe too passing some parameters which don't affect build like
> '--ask'. One case which may be problematic (or not, just guessing) is
> --jobs=N, what will happen if one perl module depend on the other, and
> they are building at the same time?

Then portage will sort them out according to dependencies, as usual.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 14 February 2015 11:53:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Your use of -- to supply extra arguments to emerge. It means you may
> be using unsupported options so if it breaks, the pieces are all
> yours.

Yes, I can read the words, Neil  ;-)  I just want to know whether it's 
safe to ignore the warning even when issued with such vigour. As I said, 
I can't see anything dangerous in the arguments I pass in the alias.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Alan McKinnon]

On 14/02/2015 16:11, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2015 11:53:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 
>> Your use of -- to supply extra arguments to emerge. It means you may
>> be using unsupported options so if it breaks, the pieces are all
>> yours.
> 
> Yes, I can read the words, Neil  ;-)  I just want to know whether it's 
> safe to ignore the warning even when issued with such vigour. As I said, 
> I can't see anything dangerous in the arguments I pass in the alias.
> 


Those should be safe, none of your selected options change the final output.

Personally, I think the warning is going a tad overboard, but hey to
each dev his own


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:11:32 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > Your use of -- to supply extra arguments to emerge. It means you may
> > be using unsupported options so if it breaks, the pieces are all
> > yours.  
> 
> Yes, I can read the words, Neil  ;-)  I just want to know whether it's 
> safe to ignore the warning even when issued with such vigour. As I
> said, I can't see anything dangerous in the arguments I pass in the
> alias.

Nor can I. The warning is really saying you are using an
unsupported combination of options. Rather than saying they are unsafe,
it is saying they are not certain to be safe. The decision is yours, but
my reaction to the warning is along the like of "OK, whatever" and then I
do it anyway.

Neil
living life on the edge!
-- 
Neil Bothwick

When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?

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