[core-hw-kit] Can't install sys-firmware/intel-microcode due to missing dep sys-apps/iucode_tool

[cuantar]

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sys-apps/iucode_tool".
(dependency required by "sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20241029_p20240526::core-hw-kit" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "intel-microcode" [argument])```

[cuantar]

However, it's awfully suspicious that I can't reproduce this anywhere except the one environment. Might not be real.

[cuantar]

Oh, it's real. The unaffected systems already have iucode_tool installed from before it was removed from the tree. We need to add it back, I think.

[geaaru]

I suspect that when we have <kit>/packages.yaml and <kit>/mark/packages.yaml the second is ignored.

$> grep iucode_tool * -r
core-hw-kit/mark/packages.yaml:  - sys-apps/iucode_tool

[geaaru]

Considering that the plan is slowly drop the dependency from old Gentoo Portage it's better add the last version as curated ebuild and eventually autogen it or postpone this for a second phase

[cuantar]

My intention is to autogen the latest version, provided it works. If that path proves difficult, then I'll pin it to whatever version we used to have and use our old ebuild as a template.

[cuantar]

https://gitlab.com/iucode-tool/iucode-tool/-/wikis/home

[cuantar]

We can get a source tarball from here, for the most recent release (6 years ago): https://gitlab.com/iucode-tool/releases

[cuantar]

Something has changed:

>>> Installing (5 of 7) sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20241112_p20240526::core-hw-kit

but,

$ eix iucode_tool
No matches found

🤷

[geaaru]

What does mean? Is the iucode-tool no more needed?