About this passage in sys-apps/portage/portage-1.9.9.ebuild : pkg_preinst() { if [ -d /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/bash-2.05a ] && [ ! -d /var/db/pkg/sys-apps /bash-2.05a-r1 ] then eerror "You have to update your bash-2.05a installation." eerror "Please execute 'emerge sys- apps/bash' as root" eerror "before installing this version of portage." die fi } I asked: > > What exactly does that "if [ -d /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/bash-2.05a ] && > > [ ! -d /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/bash-2.05a-r1 ]" line mean, and what do > > I do to get the right flavor of bash installed? Chad answered: > Just change that line to look for bash-2.05a-r2 instead. That > might do it. I don't know who wrote that, but it is a terrible hack. I explored a bit more: It did look a bit terrible to me too :o) Shouldn't it require an appropriate bash version through an RDEPEND assignment at the start of the ebuild? I don't know what exactly the above 'if' statement thinks it's checking though. Paraphrased: "If the directory .../bash-2.05a exists and the directory .../bash-2.05a-r1 does not exist, then die". On my system, .../bash-2.05a exists, and it contains bash-2.05a-r1.ebuild (or -r2 as the case may be). But no -r1 or -r2 directories ever exist. So should the 'if' really be "If the directory .../bash-2.05a exists and the *file* .../bash-2.05a/bash-2.05a-r1.ebuild does not exist, then die"? Still a hack, which would fail for r2. I think for now I'm just going to hack that whole stanza out of the ebuild.
I already removed it when I saw it. Ugh!
