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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems building www-client/uzbl-9999
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:01:13
Message-Id: 20130925230101.GA28736@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems building www-client/uzbl-9999 by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:33:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
2 >
3 > That looks like a horrible bug in the ebuild - it's trying to install to
4 > the live filesystem. ebuilds install to the work directory in
5 > /var/tmp/portage/ and the merge phase moves the files over to /usr.
6 >
7 > You can either file a bug at b.g.o. or contact the ebuild maintainer
8 > directly.
9 >
10 > I don't see that a -9999 ebuild makes any difference, once the code has
11 > been checked out and a working copy made, the ebuild works like any
12 > other ebuild - no special magic
13
14 Thanks. Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486012 filed.
15
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17 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
18 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications