On Sunday 02 March 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: <snip>
> | What you wrote doesn't make sense. depscan.sh is installed by > | baselayout and mktemp is installed by coreutils. You have > | depscan.sh Which package is blocking which? You don't have to guess > | which one, portage will tell you when an emerge fails. > > Well, apparently either the latest ~amd64 keyword masked version of > coreutils does not install /bin/mktemp, or makes changes so that > /sbin/depscan.sh cannot find it, because "/bin/mktemp missing" is a > part of the error message, I receive. When I mask the latest version > of coreutils, and merge the older one and the mktemp ebuild, the > problem disappears (yes, I was able to get emerge to work - finally). Ah. That's useful info. Are you saying that current coreutils does not supply mktemp (it should), so you have to use an older coreutils and a discrete mktemp ebuild? What's in the build log for the non-working coreutils regarding mktemp? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
