Bug 832962

Summary:	[Future EAPI] Profile settings from overlays should be respected
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Anna Vyalkova <cyber+gentoo>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	Package Manager Specification <pms>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	esigra, gentoo, i, kingjon3377, mgorny, sandino
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641020
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	174380

Description Anna Vyalkova 2022-02-09 06:38:30 UTC

Example:

There's profiles/arch/amd64/x32/package.mask file in ::gentoo repo.

Somebody (let's say Larry) adds stuff to ::guru and pkgcheck complains about
NonsolvableDeps for the "default/linux/amd64/17.0/x32" profile.

But Larry can't fix this important QA issue because
profiles/arch/amd64/x32/package.mask in ::guru isn't respected.

I believe it should be.

(are there other ways to solve this problem?..)

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2022-02-09 08:37:53 UTC

I'm not opposed to this but this basically changes how the whole profile system works.  Right now it's based purely on paths without specific reliance on repository boundaries.