Trying to emerge festival doesn't work. Emerge returns immediately. I've tried all versions in portage. Here is some output (one can see the ebuilds are up to date) ---------------------------- CP10860-b festival # la total 36 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 264 Dec 30 07:37 . drwxr-xr-x 110 root root 2872 Feb 2 21:23 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1969 Dec 1 07:31 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6389 Nov 16 11:56 festival-1.4.2-r1.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6497 Nov 16 12:56 festival-1.4.2-r2.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6365 Dec 1 07:31 festival-1.4.2-r3.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1830 Nov 18 07:49 festival-1.4.2.ebuild drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 248 Dec 30 07:37 files CP10860-b festival # emerge -p festival-1.4.2-r3.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-sound/festival-1.4.2-r3 CP10860-b festival # emerge festival-1.4.2-r3.ebuild Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/festival-1.4.2-r3 to / CP10860-b festival # ----------------------------
please post `emerge info` and `qpkg -I -v festival`
spanky, matt is the owner/maintainer
CP10860-b loial # emerge info Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga java X sdl gpm pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl aalib cdr -cups dga directfb doc fbcon ggz -gnome gphoto2 imap -libg++ mbox mozilla oav pic plotutils sse -tcpd tetex tiff wmf tcltk" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" CP10860-b loial # qpkg -I -v festival CP10860-b loial #
I have tried manually downloading the files mentioned in festival-1.4.2-r3.ebuild to /usr/portage/distfiles but still nothing happens.
seemant: i dont think it's a festival bug, look at his sample run
what if you just do `emerge festival -p` ?
That doesn't seem to make a difference: CP10860-b bin # emerge festival -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-sound/festival-1.4.2-r3 CP10860-b bin # emerge festival Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/festival-1.4.2-r3 to / CP10860-b bin #
any ideas nick ?
use the rescue portage, then emerge portage again. /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/
Woo, that worked ;-) Can't imagine why my portage went numb though :-(
glad it works :)