[gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Iain Craig]

Hi guys,

Apologies if any of this has been covered previously. This is just my
problem list when installing rc5, which is otherwise wonderful.

1. First off, "emerge rsync" appears to clobber /etc/make.conf and
/etc/make.globals. Admittedly my CONFIG_PROTECT was "", allowing such a
clobber, but the clobber reset my CONFIG_PROTECT to the default; I think
this is by design but is slightly annoying.

2. Depmod -a always shouts about unresolved symbols in all modules, although
the modules still work fine. From #gentoo I gather this is a known problem
with rc5, and doesn't stop anything working.

3. After an emerge I get a warning about all missing info files. Again, I
believe this is a known issue that doesn't stop things working.

4. BitchX installation creates incorrect symlink. Following "emerge
bitchx-1.0.18-r2.ebuild", the link /usr/bin/BitchX pointed to something
non-existant, instead of the correct /usr/bin/BitchX-1.0c18. Unfortunately I
can't remember where precisely it did link as I've already pointed it to
where it should be. My setting were default USE flags, CONFIG_PROTECT="",
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu", CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe",
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe"

Hope this helps. Great work folks, I love the OS.

Brgrds,
Iain C

Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:56:23PM +0100, Iain Craig wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Apologies if any of this has been covered previously. This is just my
> problem list when installing rc5, which is otherwise wonderful.
> 
> 1. First off, "emerge rsync" appears to clobber /etc/make.conf and
> /etc/make.globals. Admittedly my CONFIG_PROTECT was "", allowing such a
> clobber, but the clobber reset my CONFIG_PROTECT to the default; I think
> this is by design but is slightly annoying.

emerge rsync doesn't touch these files, but a remerge of Portage will fry
make.conf and make.globals without CONFIG_PROTECT being set.

> 2. Depmod -a always shouts about unresolved symbols in all modules, although
> the modules still work fine. From #gentoo I gather this is a known problem
> with rc5, and doesn't stop anything working.

The new initscripts (being tested over here) should resolve this.

> 3. After an emerge I get a warning about all missing info files. Again, I
> believe this is a known issue that doesn't stop things working.

This was intentional so that are developers are reminded of bogus ebuilds. Chad
has already found a way to fix this (see the archives of about a week ago), but
to my knowledge no production ebuilds have yet been fixed.

> 4. BitchX installation creates incorrect symlink. Following "emerge
> bitchx-1.0.18-r2.ebuild", the link /usr/bin/BitchX pointed to something
> non-existant, instead of the correct /usr/bin/BitchX-1.0c18. Unfortunately I
> can't remember where precisely it did link as I've already pointed it to
> where it should be. My setting were default USE flags, CONFIG_PROTECT="",
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu", CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe",
> CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe"

Not sure about this one, but someone should look into it.  pm?

> Hope this helps. Great work folks, I love the OS.

Thanks for the reports and we're glad you love Gentoo Linux :)

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

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[Djamil ESSAISSI]

Allright ;

The new mirror should on line tomorrow -- i'll start by then mirroring.

FQDN will be "cfx5.tgv.net"  i wont know the ip before tomorrow.

It's gonna be Gentoo serving Gentoo 24/7/356&1/4 straight from Paris [ChampsElysee]

Apache will be there with his old freind Ftp smoking, a 10M pipe.

If you guys want, i can invite IrcD and some other ladies.

Yeah, this spot is just for us .


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[Djamil ESSAISSI]

Sorry the machine is plugged in, but no free IP !

I'll fix this monday at the worst .... :(

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:22:23 +0000
Djamil ESSAISSI <djamil@francexpress.com> wrote:

:-)Allright ;
:-)
:-)The new mirror should on line tomorrow -- i'll start by then mirroring.
:-)
:-)FQDN will be "cfx5.tgv.net"  i wont know the ip before tomorrow.
:-)
:-)It's gonna be Gentoo serving Gentoo 24/7/356&1/4 straight from Paris
:-)[ChampsElysee]
:-)
:-)Apache will be there with her old freind FtpD smoking, a 10M pipe.
:-)
:-)If you guys want, i can invite IrcD and some other ladies.
:-)
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:-)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Chad M. Huneycutt]

Daniel Robbins wrote:

>>3. After an emerge I get a warning about all missing info files. Again, I
>>believe this is a known issue that doesn't stop things working.
>>
>
>This was intentional so that are developers are reminded of bogus ebuilds. Chad
>has already found a way to fix this (see the archives of about a week ago), but
>to my knowledge no production ebuilds have yet been fixed.
>
Actually, I have fixed gzip and gdbm.  I will fix the others by the end 
of this week.  And I want to reiterate that all developers please look 
at my previous posts about info files and make sure they check any new 
ebuilds.  I have seen a couple packages showing info errors lately.

Chad

Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Chad M. Huneycutt wrote:

> >This was intentional so that are developers are reminded of bogus ebuilds. Chad
> >has already found a way to fix this (see the archives of about a week ago), but
> >to my knowledge no production ebuilds have yet been fixed.
> >
> Actually, I have fixed gzip and gdbm.  I will fix the others by the end 
> of this week.  And I want to reiterate that all developers please look 
> at my previous posts about info files and make sure they check any new 
> ebuilds.  I have seen a couple packages showing info errors lately.

Thanks, Chad.  Yes, everyone should make sure that their new ebuilds don't install
bogus .info files.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Chad M. Huneycutt wrote:
>Daniel Robbins wrote:
>
>Actually, I have fixed gzip and gdbm.  I will fix the others by the end 
>of this week.  And I want to reiterate that all developers please look 
>at my previous posts about info files and make sure they check any new 
>ebuilds.  I have seen a couple packages showing info errors lately.
>

The authors name is at the top of the ebuild. Perhaps we should send a
polite email outlining the error.

-- 
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Sistina Software Inc.	

What's the difference between root and God ?
God doesn't think that he is root. 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Mikael Hallendal]

Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Chad M. Huneycutt wrote:
> >Daniel Robbins wrote:
> >
> >Actually, I have fixed gzip and gdbm.  I will fix the others by the
> >end of this week.  And I want to reiterate that all developers please
> >look at my previous posts about info files and make sure they check
> >any new ebuilds.  I have seen a couple packages showing info errors
> >lately.
> >
> 
> The authors name is at the top of the ebuild. Perhaps we should send a
> polite email outlining the error.

Hi!

I think this too, perhaps send an email to both the AUTHOR and the
last commiter to that package. Another possibility is to add all
ebuilds that do this wrong under an wiki-todo so that every developer
can look there to see if someone else has found errors in one of your
ebuilds. I'm not sure about mine, haven't looked into it yet, so feel
free to flame me for broken ebuilds :)

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Chad M. Huneycutt]

Mikael Hallendal wrote:

>Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com> writes:
>
>>On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Chad M. Huneycutt wrote:
>>
>>>Daniel Robbins wrote:
>>>
>>>Actually, I have fixed gzip and gdbm.  I will fix the others by the
>>>end of this week.  And I want to reiterate that all developers please
>>>look at my previous posts about info files and make sure they check
>>>any new ebuilds.  I have seen a couple packages showing info errors
>>>lately.
>>>
>>The authors name is at the top of the ebuild. Perhaps we should send a
>>polite email outlining the error.
>>
>
>Hi!
>
>I think this too, perhaps send an email to both the AUTHOR and the
>last commiter to that package. Another possibility is to add all
>ebuilds that do this wrong under an wiki-todo so that every developer
>can look there to see if someone else has found errors in one of your
>ebuilds. I'm not sure about mine, haven't looked into it yet, so feel
>free to flame me for broken ebuilds :)
>
I believe the reason drobbins added the nag message to the end of the 
ebuild process was so that ebuild maintainers would know that their 
ebuilds had the info problem.  Thus, I don't think any e-mails are 
necessary.
Developers: do an emerge --pretend, and check the list of broken infos. 
 If one of yours is listed, then fix it.  I will do a cvs update before 
I fix a package to make sure I don't duplicate work (or just to be safe, 
you can e-mail me if you are going to fix your own).

Chad

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