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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:36:43
Message-Id: 43513B6F.4010803@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help by Kevin O'Gorman
1 Kevin O'Gorman schreef:
2 > On 10/15/05, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Kevin O'Gorman schreef:
5 >>
6 >>> I thought I was just looking, but after closing the editor my
7 >>> emerges
8 >>
9 >> are
10 >>
11 >>> complaining about a corrupted ebuild of xchat. Specifically,
12 >>>
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>>> calculating world dependencies
16 >>>> -/usr/portage/net-irc/xchat/xchat-
17 >>>
18 >>> 2.4.5.ebuild: line 24: syntax error near unexpected token `>'
19 >>>
20 >>>
21 >>>> /usr/portage/net-irc/xchat/xchat-2.4.5.ebuild: line 24: `
22 >>>> !xchatnogtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 )'
23 >>
24 >>
25 >> OK, here's line 23-29 of my ebuild:
26 >>
27 >> (piped to prevent Thunderbird freaking out; ignore the first "|"
28 >> symbol)
29 >>
30 >> |RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.0.3 | !xchatnogtk? (
31 >> >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 ) | ssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6d ) |
32 >> perl? ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.6.1 ) | python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.2 )
33 >> | tcltk? ( dev-lang/tcl ) | !net-irc/xchat-gnome"
34 >>
35 >>
36 >> Happens with editors; sometimes you get changed spacing or line
37 >> wrap, and it gets saved for some reason.
38 >>
39 >> Hope this helps, Holly
40 >
41 >
42 >
43 > I put that in, but it made no difference (according to both diff and
44 > emerge). So it must be something else. Is there a way to force a
45 > fresh copy?
46 >
47
48 Sure. Delete the copy on your system and emerge sync to get a new one
49 from the portage tree. Or you could go through CVS (from the main Gentoo
50 page, choose the 'Browse our CVS" link, and browse to the correct
51 category and package name folders), and download the correct ebuild.
52
53 Holly
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