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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:57:08
Message-Id: 200803022152.12455.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me? by Chris Walters
1 On Sunday 02 March 2008, Chris Walters wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
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4 <snip>
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6 > | What you wrote doesn't make sense. depscan.sh is installed by
7 > | baselayout and mktemp is installed by coreutils. You have
8 > | depscan.sh Which package is blocking which? You don't have to guess
9 > | which one, portage will tell you when an emerge fails.
10 >
11 > Well, apparently either the latest ~amd64 keyword masked version of
12 > coreutils does not install /bin/mktemp, or makes changes so that
13 > /sbin/depscan.sh cannot find it, because "/bin/mktemp missing" is a
14 > part of the error message, I receive. When I mask the latest version
15 > of coreutils, and merge the older one and the mktemp ebuild, the
16 > problem disappears (yes, I was able to get emerge to work - finally).
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18 Ah. That's useful info. Are you saying that current coreutils does not
19 supply mktemp (it should), so you have to use an older coreutils and a
20 discrete mktemp ebuild?
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22 What's in the build log for the non-working coreutils regarding mktemp?
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26 Alan McKinnon
27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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