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From: William Morris <wrm@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Package failures
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:55:19
Message-Id: c5451a943c6137eafeb1cc04a80b0f8c@smtp.hushmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Package failures by Benda Xu
1 Hi Benda, Fabian
2
3 Thanks for the help. I had another situation today after doing a sync and
4 trying to update (with emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world).
5 The merge failed on the first of 48 (libpng). It turned out that it was quite
6 easy to fix and I did so by changing the makefile in the working directory:
7 make and then make install worked. However, that is clearly not enough and
8 emerge --resume just continued from the beginning. Modifying the tarball with
9 my fix also failed as the ebuild re-downloaded a new tarball. As you can see
10 I'm grasping...
11
12 So what is the correct way to approach this sort of failure? Sure I should
13 report a bug (I created bug report which turned out to be a duplicate of bug
14 465010), but after doing that, I don't want to wait for resolution if I have a
15 solution. But equally, I don't necessarily want to create a patch and modify
16 the ebuild to apply it. Is there a shortcut to be able to continue? I have
17 done a emerge --skipfirst to let the merge continue, but that will still leave
18 some packages un-merged.
19
20 I guess this is where overlays come into play, but to be honest,
21 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay doesn't get me far (maybe I'm too dense to
22 follow it, but it doesn't seem to say how I actually create the overlay: what
23 do I create?). layman seems no use in this case...
24
25 Sorry to bug you; ignore if busy, but any pointers would be gratefully received
26 :-)
27
28 Regards
29 --
30 William
31
32 On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:38:08AM +0900, Benda Xu wrote:
33 > Hi William,
34 > Firstly, you need to let people know what exactly fails. " trying to
35 > merge lyx, newsbeuter and fetchmail all fail." is far far from enough.
36 > Please use the bugzilla and follow the guideline[1] to make a good bug
37 > report.
38 > Secondly, you may fix the problem yourself by introducing an overlay[2]
39 > and tune the ebuild until it installs. Then be kind to share the effort
40 > by submitting a patch to the bug you opened in step 1. Developers will
41 > review the patch and get it included.
42 > Cheers,
43 > Benda
44 > 1. [1]http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml
45 > 2. [2]http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
46 >
47 > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:34 PM, William Morris <[3]wrm@××××××××.com>
48 > wrote:
49 >
50 > Hi Fabian
51 > I feel I should be able to help instead of just uselessly waiting
52 > for a fix. I
53 > have 20 years experience of C/embedded delevopment so I feel that I
54 > should be
55 > able to do something. But I have no idea where to start. Is there
56 > a
57 > developer's guide?
58 > Regards
59 > --
60 > William
61 >
62 > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
63 > > On 01-04-2013 13:02:26 -0500, William Morris wrote:
64 > > > I have Prefix installed on a Mac (latest OS version) and am happy
65 > that I can
66 > > > use mutt and gimp. But trying to merge lyx, newsbeuter and
67 > fetchmail all fail.
68 > > > Am I just unlucky with my package selection or do other users have
69 > similar
70 > > > problems?
71 > >
72 > > Yes. Unfortunately not every package out there is working, or still
73 > > working after updates. I had Lyx installed at some point. Could be
74 > > trivial fixes, could also be very complex. There may be some bugs
75 > > already for this.
76 > >
77 > > Sorry,
78 > > Fabian
79 > >
80 > > --
81 > > Fabian Groffen
82 > > Gentoo on a different level
83 >
84 > --
85 > William
86 >
87 > --
88 > XU Benda
89 > Research Center for Neutrino Science
90 > Tohoku University
91 > JAPAN
92 > [4]http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda
93 >
94 > References
95 >
96 > 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml
97 > 2. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
98 > 3. mailto:wrm@××××××××.com
99 > 4. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda
100
101 --
102 William

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