Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

["Arttu V." <arttuv69@gmail.com>]

On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this errors baffles me.
>
> Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine
> but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with
> install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//
> usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or
> directory
>
> Has anybody an idea where this strange install path might come from?

Can you be more specific on the 'strangeness'? Which part looks odd?

For a quick glimpse it would seem to be a regular temporary 'image'
directory which is part of every package's install phase. Only once
files have been successfully installed under this temporary 'image'
(directory) will portage merge that directory's contents to respective
real directories.

As for the error itself, it could be a parallel make problem (goes
temporarily away with MAKE_OPTS="-j1", but should still be reported at
bugs.gentoo.org) or a lazy installer script which isn't properly
creating the directories to which it will try to install files (which
should also be reported at b.g.o, as it might be a gentoo-only
problem).

-- 
Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors