In version 2.15 of cowloop, cowmerge has been added to the package and the make/install part of the ebuild weren't added that source file to compile, I added the patch for this bug at the end of the bug report. Another problem I was wondering, is there a way to automatically add rules to udev for that package as when you use udev it creates on modprobe /dev/cowctl but the program search for /dev/cow/ctl when used and will not work until it is created there, also when it works it will create a cowdev /dev/cowloop0 when the program says it has created /dev/cow/[0-16] depending on the number of cowloops, I added those lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules : # cow loop KERNEL=="cowctl" NAME="cow/ctl" KERNEL=="cowloop[0-9]" NAME="cow/%n" those lines worked perfectly and fixed it. --- portage/sys-fs/cowloop/cowloop-2.15.ebuild 2005-06-26 05:38:58.000000000 -0400 +++ portage-cowloop/sys-fs/cowloop/cowloop-2.15.ebuild 2005-08-02 23:55:56.000000000 -0400 @@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ pkg_setup() { src_compile() { linux-mod_src_compile - CC="$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS}" emake cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist || die "make failed" + CC="$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS}" emake cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist cowmerge || die "make failed" } src_install() { linux-mod_src_install - dosbin cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist + dosbin cowdev cowrepair cowsync cowlist cowmerge doman man/* }
Created attachment 64964 [details, diff] Patch for cowloop ebuild
Comment on attachment 64964 [details, diff] Patch for cowloop ebuild Just though it could be an idea to have a file instead of text.
cowloop-2.15-r1 fixes cowmerge Greg - are the udev additions feasible?
You don't need to add those udev entries to the main udev rules file, just drop them into the /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory. With a name something like "60-cowloop.rules" so they get run after the other rules.
done - thanks greg.
Ah ok! I tried that but didn't add the .rules suffix and it didn't work but with .rules it works perfectly. Thanks.
