sys-apps/collectl appears to be completely broken. It has nonsense like require "/usr/share/${PN}/Syslog.pm" if !$PcFlag; after emerged to /usr/bin/collectl resulting in: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/collectl line 135. Can't locate /usr/share//Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/collectl line 135. In addition it installs a rc script /etc/init.d/collectl which tries to start-stop-daemon /usr/sbin/collectl, which doesn't exist (it's in /usr/bin as installed currently). of course if it'd fine it, it wouldn't work anyhow per above..
Yeah ... I found the "/usr/sbin/collectl" problem but not the one reported here. So I'm not going to file a duplicate. Anyhow, version 2.5.1 is out now, so I don't see much point in fixing 2.5.0. I'm planning to download 2.5.1 and seeing if I can get the vanilla version to work.
2.5.1 runs just fine straight from source on my machine (amd64 2.6.24-r4).
(In reply to comment #0) > sys-apps/collectl appears to be completely broken. > It has nonsense like > > require "/usr/share/${PN}/Syslog.pm" if !$PcFlag; > The problem is with the ebuild. It has two mistakes in the sed expression in src_unpack. 1. sed uses single quotes (') due to which the ${PN} in the sed expression is substituted literally in the file collectl.pl 2. sed replaces all the lines (there are two) starting with "require", whereas the original intention of the ebuild maintainer was to replace only one of the lines. The following patch fixes the ebuild: --- /usr/portage/sys-apps/collectl/collectl-2.5.0.ebuild 2008-03-16 03:26:42.000000000 -0400 +++ /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/collectl/collectl-2.5.0.ebuild 2008-07-20 02:08:08.000000000 -0400 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ unpack ${A} cd "${S}" sed -i \ - -e '/^require/s: ".*/: "/usr/share/${PN}/:' \ + -e "/^require.*formatit.ph\";/s: \".*/: \"/usr/share/${PN}/:" \ collectl.pl || die }
Created attachment 160896 [details] new patched ebuild New patched ebuild for collectl-2.5.0
Created attachment 160901 [details] new ebuild, version 3.0.0 There is a new version of collectl available. New collectl-3.0.0 ebuild. The SRC_URI line has changed, in addition to the lines changed in the previous attachment: -SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/collectl/${P}-src.tar.gz" +SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/collectl/${P}.src.tar.gz"
The 2.5.0 and 2.4.1 ebuilds that are currently in Portage fail with the error mentioned in this bug report. The 2.5.0 ebuild in Comment #4 works just fine for me. Please replace the one in Portage with it.
Additionally, the 3.0.0 ebuild in Comment #5 works fine for me as well. Would P Purkayastha care to write an ebuild for 3.2.1 and attach it to Bug #266649 ? :) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266649
3.2.1 in the tree with the proposed fix in the future, post a diff, not an entire ebuild
