Bug 459346

Summary:	sys-firmware/vgabios-0.7a: missing prebuilt support for non-x86/amd64 systems
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	reno reckling <bugzilla-gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugzilla-gentoo, qemu+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description reno reckling 2013-02-26 18:31:12 UTC

Hi,
the ebuild for sys-firmware/vgabios-0.7a is broken on the ppc arch.
Installing yields the error:
>>> Starting src_install
install: cannot stat 'bins/*': No such file or directory

This is most likely because there is the specific bins tarball missing.
The vgabios-0.6c-r1 ebuild fetches the url: http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/distfiles/${P}-bins.tar.xz
which contains the missing bins.

The 0.7a install only fails on non x86/amd64 arches because src_install correctly selects the .bin files already present in the 0.7a tarball for installation.

Only for non x86/amd64 arches it tries to install bins/* which is missing.

Comment 1 reno reckling 2013-02-26 20:37:00 UTC

This does not just occur on ppc, the problem will occur on every arch except x86 and amd64

Comment 2 Marek Behún 2013-07-11 16:17:20 UTC

And yet nobody created package with binary files.

Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-12 07:36:58 UTC

[ while I agree it's a severe problem: keywords are dropped and ebuild itself
does not have direct functionality to rebuild binaries ]

What does pull 'vgabios' as a dependency for you?
(0.7 is unkeyworded on ppc right now)

On non-x86/non-amd64 qemu uses bundled bioses,
thus you might try just to deinstall 'vgabios'.

[ sure, it's very bad, as we ship out-of-sync'ed environments and get breakages
like this ]

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-05-18 17:44:33 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Add USE=binary support with upstream tarball
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-firmware/vgabios/metadata.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-firmware/vgabios/vgabios-0.7a-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1