Bug 246580 – no ebuilds to satisfy "<sys-devel/m4-1.4.11"

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Rabbe Fogelholm 2008-11-13 07:51:11 UTC]

Bootstrapping from scratch fails with the message

no ebuilds to satisfy "<sys-devel/m4-1.4.11"

This happens at "Code Listing 1.11: emerge coreutils".

[Comment 1 Rabbe Fogelholm 2008-11-15 18:58:19 UTC]

I had a look at old console logs, it seems that the problem appeared 2008-11-12.

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2008-11-15 21:44:27 UTC]

stop using the old and unmaintained linux bootstrap guide :)

[Comment 3 Rabbe Fogelholm 2008-11-30 11:27:40 UTC]

I am pleased to confirm successful bootstrapping on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP 1, using the September 17, 2008 version of http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml?style=printable, completely without tweaks!

Just a thought, perhaps it would be a good idea to put a "no-longer-maintained" warning on the Linux page. Even if it is not linked from the official Gentoo web people may have bookmarks pointing to it.

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2008-11-30 22:11:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Just a thought, perhaps it would be a good idea to put a "no-longer-maintained"
> warning on the Linux page. Even if it is not linked from the official Gentoo
> web people may have bookmarks pointing to it.

or nuke the file entirely....

makes sense to me!

Good to know it all works now for the moment!