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On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 01:05:35 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 05 October 2008 00:03:47 Andreas Simbuerger wrote: |
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> > > Installs to /usr/local/lib sounds like b0rked ebuilds. I'd try |
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> > > using equery to find the ebuilds that installed "bad" files. |
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> > > Then I'd look for "/usr/local" in those ebuilds and fix them. |
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> > > Putting the fixed ebuilds in /usr/local/portage/..., rather than |
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> > > just changing /usr/portage/..., might be even better. Lastly, |
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> > > I'd report the b0rked ebuilds on bugzilla.gentoo.org and would |
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> > > include the fixes with the reports. |
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> > > |
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> > > Looking on my system, all that /usr/local/lib is |
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> > > /usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/doxypy-0.3rc2-py2.5.egg-info |
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> > > which appears to have come from manually installing |
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> > > ~/Download/doxypy-0.3rc2.tar.gz, i.e. the one such file I have |
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> > > isn't from an ebuild at all. Might that be what's happened to |
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> > > you? |
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> > > |
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> > > HTH, |
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> > > |
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> > > David |
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> > |
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> > Thanks for this idea! :D |
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> > |
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> > So portage takes /usr/local/portage before /usr/portage ? |
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> That's pretty normal, it's so that your customizations override the |
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> distro default, much like dot files in ~ override whatever is in /etc/ |
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> David's comment about b0rked ebuilds is spot-on. Most packages are |
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> built using autotools, which defaults to --prefix=/usr/local. The |
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> ebuild author forgot to change it to /usr/, so you have to figure out |
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> what he should have done and do it yourself. I would recommend |
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> submitting a bug report plus patch when you solve it, and meanwhile |
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> keeping a correct copy of the ebuild in your local overlay. |
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> By and large the broken ebuild works, as libs in /usr/local are still |
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> found on systems with sane linkers, despite the location being |
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> technically incorrect |
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FWIW, I too have dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 installed on an AMD64 |
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system. However my files are in /usr/lib, not in /usr/local/lib as |
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reported by the OP -- which makes it sound like the ebuild is OK and |
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there's something unusual in his environment. |
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