20895 – emerge calls to "perl" and "java-config" when they are not installed.

Bug 20895 - emerge calls to "perl" and "java-config" when they are not installed.

Summary: emerge calls to "perl" and "java-config" when they are not installed.

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	Sparc Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sparc Porters

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Reported:	2003-05-12 22:28 UTC by Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-12 22:28:29 UTC

With a recently bootstraped system (exactly right after the scripts/bootstrap.sh
from the code listing 8.7 mentioned at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-install.xml) I run "emerge -f
some_packages" and if some of the packages of there dependences are perl modules
or java related, they call to perl and to java-config, even if they don't exist.

I know that someone will probably anwer "Wait until the emerge system is
complete", but one should be able to just download stuff while wainting, right?
Also, emerge should know better than to call binaries that don't exist.

Comment 1 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-18 22:29:13 UTC

Thanks for filing a bug.

Have you seen the updated installation documentation at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~blademan/sparc-install-doc.html

There are newer CD images and stage tarballs available. Please see if your problem persists.

Thanks,

Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-19 19:58:07 UTC

Can you give some examples of the packages you were attempting to fetch?

Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-30 12:16:16 UTC

no responce