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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: |
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>>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list |
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>>> !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! |
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>>> exiting |
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>>> c2stable ~ # |
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>> Mine does the same thing on 1 computer but works on 2 others. All with |
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>> the same versions of all involved packages. Weird. |
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>> |
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> Hey, at least I'm in good company if my old friend Paul Hartman sees |
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> the same thing. :-) |
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> There is a patch to the binutils.eselect file here that worked for me: |
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> https://423525.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=316441 |
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> Before patching (if you do at all - I recommend you don't patch unless |
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> you just want to) run this command in the directory you are running |
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> eselect in. (For me it was just /root) |
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> echo -* |
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> On a 'good' machine it returns |
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> -q |
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> On a 'bad' machine here it returns |
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> --help -q |
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> I don't think the machine is really bad. I think eselect was likely |
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> just not being selective enough about how it works with whatever is in |
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> the directory or search path? Not sure. |
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> If you see something different you might add it to the bug report but |
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> I suspect we've got the same issue. |
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Ah-ha. When I run the command from a directory which does not contain |
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any files or dirs starting with hyphen, it is fine. In my user dir |
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there is ~/- directory for some reason, so that must have been |
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confusing it. |