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From: "Arttu V." <arttuv69@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:08:15
Message-Id: AANLkTikGsBxPLsDMb5q2Z5WhCoZQt8e3P2LiLjt_dtoY@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > this errors baffles me.
6 >
7 > Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine
8 > but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with
9 > install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//
10 > usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or
11 > directory
12 >
13 > Has anybody an idea where this strange install path might come from?
14
15 Can you be more specific on the 'strangeness'? Which part looks odd?
16
17 For a quick glimpse it would seem to be a regular temporary 'image'
18 directory which is part of every package's install phase. Only once
19 files have been successfully installed under this temporary 'image'
20 (directory) will portage merge that directory's contents to respective
21 real directories.
22
23 As for the error itself, it could be a parallel make problem (goes
24 temporarily away with MAKE_OPTS="-j1", but should still be reported at
25 bugs.gentoo.org) or a lazy installer script which isn't properly
26 creating the directories to which it will try to install files (which
27 should also be reported at b.g.o, as it might be a gentoo-only
28 problem).
29
30 --
31 Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>