[gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

[gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

[Rod]

    Hi.

    This issue is really pissing me off, I have ried almost all the 
fixes, even to the point of booting and copying a Stage3 tarball over 
the running system and doing a Stage3 Install.

    No matter what I do, and for almost ALL packages I get ..
* Portage patch failed to apply (ltmain.sh version 1.5.24)!
 * Please bug azarah or vapier to add proper patch.
 *
 * ERROR: dev-libs/gmp-4.3.1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2811:  Called elibtoolize
 *             environment, line 1065:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                                   die "Portage patch failed to apply!";
 *  The die message:
 *   Portage patch failed to apply!

    For this package and everything else I wish to apply, this is 
locking my system in time so I can no longer upgrade any software ;o(

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 07 June 2009 19:02:54 Rod wrote:
>     Hi.
>
>     This issue is really pissing me off, I have ried almost all the
> fixes, even to the point of booting and copying a Stage3 tarball over
> the running system and doing a Stage3 Install.
>
>     No matter what I do, and for almost ALL packages I get ..
> * Portage patch failed to apply (ltmain.sh version 1.5.24)!
>  * Please bug azarah or vapier to add proper patch.
>  *
>  * ERROR: dev-libs/gmp-4.3.1 failed.
>  * Call stack:
>  *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
>  *             environment, line 2811:  Called elibtoolize
>  *             environment, line 1065:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *                                   die "Portage patch failed to apply!";
>  *  The die message:
>  *   Portage patch failed to apply!
>
>     For this package and everything else I wish to apply, this is
> locking my system in time so I can no longer upgrade any software ;o(

Assuming that this is a problem on your end (no-one else is reporting portage 
problems), let's look at why patch is failing.

If you manually unpack the distfile and try to patch it, what errors do you 
get?


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

[Mike Kazantsev]

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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:50:09 +0200
Rod <Rod@Rods.id.au> wrote:

>     For this package and everything else I wish to apply, this is 
> locking my system in time so I can no longer upgrade any software ;o(

You can use "emerge --keep-going" flag for portage-2.2 or
"emerge --resume --skip-first" for earlier versions to update
everything else.
There's also some simple sh-scripts for emulating "--keep-going"
functionality for earlier portage versions. I can't remember any
specific names, but I'm sure google should be able to help here.

If the problem is specific to this exact version of package (gmp
usually builds, but 4.3.1 fails) and the update itself is not critical
to you (like when you don't even know what it'll bring) then you can
just ignore it altogether - there's a good chance 4.3.2 or 4.4.0 or
whatever-next-version-is will compile cleanly.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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