Re: [gentoo-user] Package removal error

[Anthony E. Caudel]

Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:10 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>
>> While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
>> received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
>>
>> ==========================================
>>  sys-apps/texinfo
>>     selected: 4.8-r5
>>    protected: 4.11-r1
>>      omitted: none
>>
>>  >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>  >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
>>
>>  >>> Unmerging sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5...
>> /var/tmp/binpkgs/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/temp/environment: line 256:
>> syntax error near unexpected token `('
>> /var/tmp/binpkgs/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/temp/environment: line 256:
>> `            done <<(get_mounts);'
>>  *
>>  * ERROR: sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5 failed.
>>  * Call stack:
>>  *               ebuild.sh, line 1641:  Called die
>>  * The specific snippet of code:
>>  *      preprocess_ebuild_env || \
>>  *              die "error processing environment"
>>  *  The die message:
>>  *   error processing environment
>>  *
>>  * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack
>> if relevant.
>>  * A complete build log is located at
>> '/var/tmp/binpkgs/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/temp/build.log'.
>>  * The ebuild environment file is located at
>> '/var/tmp/binpkgs/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/temp/environment'.
>>  *
>> !!! FAILED prerm: 1
>>  * The 'prerm' phase of the 'sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5' package has failed
>>  * with exit value 1. The problem occurred while executing the ebuild
>>  * located at '/var/db/pkg/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/texinfo-4.8-r5.ebuild'.
>>  * If necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution
>>  * of removal phases.
>> ========================================
>>
>> How do I handle this?  I notice it recommends removing the ebuild but
>> how would that remove the old package?  Should I just wait and re-sync
>> after a while, hoping they fix it.  Nothing in BGO yet.
>>
>>
>
> Perhaps you could post the pkg_prerm function
> in /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/texinfo-4.8-r5.ebuild or look at
> it yourself so we'd know what it is doing and possibly find our why it's
> failing.
>
> -a
>
>
No such animal!  Here is 
/var/db/pkg/sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5/texinfo-4.8-r5.ebuild
=========================================
# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: 
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/texinfo/texinfo-4.8-r5.ebuild,v 1.3 
2006/11/10 13:11:25 gustavoz Exp $

inherit flag-o-matic eutils toolchain-funcs

DESCRIPTION="The GNU info program and utilities"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"
SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc-macos 
~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd"
IUSE="nls build static"

RDEPEND="!build? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2 )
        !build? ( nls? ( virtual/libintl ) )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
        !build? ( nls? ( sys-devel/gettext ) )"

src_unpack() {
        unpack ${A}
        cd "${S}"
        epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-freebsd.patch
        epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-tempfile-owl.patch #114499
        epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-bounds-check.patch #140902
        epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-buf-overflow-CVE-2006-4810.patch #154316

        cd doc
        # Get the texinfo info page to have a proper name of texinfo.info
        sed -i 's:setfilename texinfo:setfilename texinfo.info:' texinfo.txi
        sed -i \
                -e 's:INFO_DEPS = texinfo:INFO_DEPS = texinfo.info:' \
                -e 's:texinfo\::texinfo.info\::' \
                Makefile.in
}

src_compile() {
        local myconf=
        if ! use nls || use build ; then
                myconf="--disable-nls"
        fi
        use static && append-ldflags -static

        econf ${myconf} || die

        # Cross-compile workaround #133429
        if tc-is-cross-compiler ; then
                emake -C tools || die "emake tools"
        fi

        # work around broken dependency's in info/Makefile.am #85540
        emake -C lib || die "emake lib"
        emake -C info makedoc || die "emake makedoc"
        emake -C info doc.c || die "emake doc.c"
        emake || die "emake"
}

src_install() {
        if use build ; then
                newbin util/ginstall-info install-info
                dobin makeinfo/makeinfo util/{texi2dvi,texindex}
        else
                make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "install failed"
                dosbin ${FILESDIR}/mkinfodir
                # tetex installs this guy #76812
                has_version '<app-text/tetex-3' && rm -f 
"${D}"/usr/bin/texi2pdf

                if [[ ! -f ${D}/usr/share/info/texinfo.info ]] ; then
                        die "Could not install texinfo.info!!!"
                fi

                dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog INTRODUCTION NEWS README TODO
                newdoc info/README README.info
                newdoc makeinfo/README README.makeinfo
        fi
}
==========================================

Tony

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