emerge system fails

GutShot · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

First time gentoo install. Long time linux user.

Installing on a laptop (Sony viao) with 1.4RC4. Doing a stage 1 install.

Everything has been going fine. After the bootstrap I edited the make.conf (PLEASE put vi in the base tarball in the future!!!) and added the packages I want to install via the use flags documented here. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/use-howto.xml After many packages compile and install fine, it attempts to emerge textutils-2.1 and fails with this error:

Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is:
/usr/portage/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.1-gentoo.diff

ERROR sys-apps/textutils-2.1 failed
Function is epatch. Line 214. exitcode 0
Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!

I have gone to that path and verified that file is not present. emerge sync doesn't seem to help at all.

Any suggestions?

Jeff
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antibiotic · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:05 am Post subject:

Did you change anything in make.conf concerning portage? Because when I did, I couldnt compile anything. Better leave those dirs as they are. I mean, by default all portage variables are all commented, just leave them as they are

Hope it helps.
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djduff · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 1

Hi GutShot,

When you get this error message, try "emerge sync" for a second time then "emerge -p system" and "emerge system".

It works fine for me, no more error messages!

Bye :wink:

GutShot · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

Well, I rm'd the textutils dir and re-ran sync and it worked. Thanks for the pointers.