i tried installing savage2 from portage today. my system is setup this way: portage tree is on squashfs, it's merged via unionfs with extra directory for r/w access. squashfs image is rebuilt on system shutdown. mounted in /usr/portage distfiles and packages are in separate /home/gentoo/distfiles and /home/gentoo/packages directories (no symlinking from portage tree, they're explictly specified in make.conf) i had already downloaded one file from savage before. instead of copying/moving it into distfile dir, i symlinked it, and i got an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4153, in ? emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4148, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3660, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2020, in merge mydbapi=portdb, tree="porttree") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2982, in doebuild if need_distfiles and not fetch( File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2152, in fetch mystat = os.stat(myfile_path) OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/home/gentoo/distfiles/savage_2.00c-english.update.run' there is just ONE symlink in the way, so i really don't understand this. i used to symlink distfiles off dvd a couple of years ago (around 2004.3 / 2005.0) , now it seems to be broken.
emerge --info, please.
well i thought it was irrelevant to the problem here goes: emerge --info -------------------------------- Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-beyond4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-beyond4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 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Do the following commands work? stat /home/gentoo/distfiles/savage_2.00c-english.update.run stat -L /home/gentoo/distfiles/savage_2.00c-english.update.run python -c "import os; os.stat('/home/gentoo/distfiles/savage_2.00c-english.update.run')"
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