An example CONTENTS file is: :; cat /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r4/CONTENTS dir /home dir /home/portage dir /home/portage/portage dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4 dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/lib dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/bin obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/bin/bggen d45e4c4dffe74db890ec5155c54f26f0 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/bin/xvpictoppm 03d6c30a4e22e8c4a1b82f5ccb1e894c 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/bin/xcmap cc96d52da1872d51682d0183c8f3b325 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/bin/xv c0e0c6d5334c955832728561b651f6df 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/bin/vdcomp 5f023aa4812c8ecfe9925641789c9ab0 1059767847 dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man dir /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man/man1 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man/man1/xvpictoppm.1 3fd18504d61c3dbff7a263c7dcf77628 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man/man1/bggen.1 84d0a7c1122a8b22df2d55edbc594101 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man/man1/xcmap.1 7f694bda0d861015b2925f55b5a1dffd 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man/man1/vdcomp.1 f7b7f50c5eb6420bf324b930fe3c7811 1059767847 obj /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/usr/share/man/man1/xv.1 e86b981f9a46f6282eed1a85c37616e6 1059767847 dir /usr dir /usr/bin dir /usr/share dir /usr/share/man dir /usr/share/man/man1 dir /usr/share/doc dir /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a/xvdocs.ps 1837326dd35f009ceeadb9669a0ccf6c 1059767847 dir /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/README.gz 5582596a81c0ca6c73e2004012e3ddf2 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/bmp.doc.gz 3bd7df15d9a3bbc13f830337ae21fc2a 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/epsf.ps.gz cc0af6fe7f9f1ace6fec7608770074c4 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/xvtitle.ps.gz f54c9ab52fd90548265197856e0f3cae 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/CHANGELOG.gz 3152df4805d36ad216f75aef7f7dcf0d 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/INSTALL.gz 0760f4533cd9cc9de7864dd8616d1367 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/BUGS.gz 354ba0fb6054ffdf012cf6744609e781 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/IDEAS.gz d2eb6a8de4e0c250825622981e98c85e 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/xvdocs.ps.gz 657dcbdebfedbfcee58df9c35519e08c 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/gif89.doc.gz 7512250f2c61828d2311bad16514bd63 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/xpm.ps.gz f619860c13a652c510001a9de7d2be9f 1059767847 obj /usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a-r4/gif87.doc.gz c47a4aae31ab1c17f270b4f23668dfee 1059767847 this has only started recently. I have 8 CONTENTS files so affected. NB that in each case every file listed in ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage/${P}/image/ is not installed in /, and is of course lost when image is deleted during the emerge. When this happened to perl, I was forced to manually untar the package of the last working emerge to get the box back to a working condition. :; emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 3dnow apm foomaticdb mad gtkhtml arts ggi esd ldap aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bonobo cdr cjk crypt cups dvd encode ethereal evo flash gb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit kde ksi lcms leim libg++ libgda libwww mikmod mmx motif mozilla mozsvg mpeg mule nas ncurses nls nptl objc oci8 oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp postgres python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby sasl scanner sdl slang slp snmp spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wmf X xml xml2 xmms xv zlib -mysql -svga" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox buildpkg ccache keeptemp cvs"
I just tried re-merging xv, and saw this in the emerge output: >>> Install xv-3.10a-r4 into /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image/ category media-gfx mkdir -p /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image//{/home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image//usr/bin,/home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image//usr/share/man/man1,/home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image//usr/lib,/usr/share/doc/xv-3.10a} cp xv bggen vdcomp xcmap xvpictoppm /home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image///home/portage/portage/xv-3.10a-r4/image//usr/bin so the bug is in installing, not in merging from image to /
I'm changing this to componenet:ebuilds. Turns out that this patch to xv-3.10a-r4.ebuild fixed the problem: --- xv-3.10a-r4.ebuild.~1~ 2003-08-04 14:19:36.205357858 -0400 +++ xv-3.10a-r4.ebuild 2003-08-04 14:13:16.071723482 -0400 @@ -68,5 +68,5 @@ DESTDIR=${D} \ - BINDIR=${D}/usr/bin \ + BINDIR=/usr/bin \ - MANDIR=${D}/usr/share/man/man1 \ + MANDIR=/usr/share/man/man1 \ - LIBDIR=${D}/usr/lib \ + LIBDIR=/usr/lib \ install || die (NB the context) got it to work.... dvnet-0.9.8, gif2png-2.4.7, perl-5.8.1_rc3, freetds-0.61 have similar bugs, and erlang-9b & netcdf-3.5.0-r2 have related bugs that only affect symlinks.
I really have no idea what you're talking about. Please explain what is happening. If this is a bug regarding specific packages, please report them as ebuild changes/fixes/bugs.
> I really have no idea what you're talking about. (I had to take some time to ensure this doesn't come out flamable. Please ignore any heat that may appear to be intended....) Try starting with Additonal Comment #1. That should make it more clear. In short, some packages are doubling up DESTDIR like such: DESTDIR=${D} BINDIR=${D}/usr/bin make install where Makefile installs into $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR), thus the files end up in ${D}/${D}/usr/bin rather than ${D}/usr/bin, and at merge time get moved from ${D}/${D}/usr/bin to ${D}/usr/bin. Etc. Also, some makefiles are creating symlinks that are absolute, so the merged link points to someplace under ${D} rather than where is should. Try: find /var/db/pkg -name CONTENTS -print0|xargs -0 egrep /image/ Ignoring false positives I get the entire contents of /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/perl-5.8.1_rc3/CONTENTS and /var/db/pkg/dev-libs/dvnet-0.9.8/CONTENTS as well as: /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gif2png-2.4.7/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gif2png-2.4.7/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/gif2png-2.4.7 /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gif2png-2.4.7/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/gif2png-2.4.7/image /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gif2png-2.4.7/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/gif2png-2.4.7/image/usr /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gif2png-2.4.7/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/gif2png-2.4.7/image/usr/bin /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/erlang-9b/CONTENTS:sym /usr/lib/erlang/bin/epmd -> /home/portage/portage/erlang-9b/image//usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.2/bin/epmd (41471, 1198155L, 773L, 1, 0, 0, 71L, 1051705543, 1051705543, 1051705543) /var/db/pkg/dev-db/freetds-0.61/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage /var/db/pkg/dev-db/freetds-0.61/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/freetds-0.61 /var/db/pkg/dev-db/freetds-0.61/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/freetds-0.61/image /var/db/pkg/dev-db/freetds-0.61/CONTENTS:dir /home/portage/portage/freetds-0.61/image/etc /var/db/pkg/dev-db/freetds-0.61/CONTENTS:obj /home/portage/portage/freetds-0.61/image/etc/locales.conf acb4b9cf792dbff17396e53cc8d775e4 1059528964 /var/db/pkg/dev-db/freetds-0.61/CONTENTS:obj /home/portage/portage/freetds-0.61/image/etc/freetds.conf bd53ccf09a5e88624160fdb588bc1fff 1059528964 /var/db/pkg/app-sci/netcdf-3.5.0-r2/CONTENTS:sym /usr/share/man/man3f/netcdf.3f.gz -> /home/portage/portage/netcdf-3.5.0-r2/image//usr/share/man/man3/netcdf.3f.gz (41471, 1461090L, 773L, 1, 0, 0, 76L, 1052414330, 1052414330, 1052414330)
not to make more work for you, but if you find other packages than xv please file a sep bug about each
r4 has been removed because it was broken badly use r3 or r5
