Bug 25988 – When copying the packages from the CD into the mounted partition the directions cause them to be placed incorrectly in /usr/portage/packages instead of /usr/portage/packages/All resulting in the inability to use the precompiled packages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description BonezTheGoon 2003-08-05 15:11:55 UTC]

I was able to correct the issue by copying the entire contents 
of /usr/portage/packages into /usr/portage/pkgs/All and then 
deleted /usr/portage/packages and then moved /usr/portage/pkgs 
to /usr/portage/packages so that the packages were then located 
in /usr/portage/packages/All as they should be.  I verified that this does then 
allow the packages to be used by portage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.While booted to the Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD issue '# cp -
a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/'
2.Then chroot into the new environment and attempt to install any package found 
in /mnt/cdrom/packages/All (such as gaming-sources or gentoo-sources) using 
the -K switch with portage (indicating to ONLY use a precompiled package.)  
Notice that portage dies saying there are no packages found meeting that 
description.
3.Verify that the packages have indeed been copied (however, unfortunately, to 
the wrong location) into /usr/portage/packages instead 
of /usr/portage/packages/All

Actual Results:  
Unable to install precompiled packages.

Expected Results:  
Thought I'd be able to use the packages I copied from the CD 
from /mnt/cdrom/packages/All

See the step to reproduce section above, it pretty much sums it up.  Should be 
an easy documentation update to correct the issue.

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-08-09 09:04:42 UTC]

avenj made some changes to the installation guide, making the commands read :

"""
# cp -R /mnt/cdrom/distfiles /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
# cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/
"""

Is this sufficient, or are there still GRP problems with the documentation?

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-08-09 17:43:16 UTC]

Sven,

Semi off-topic, but when you have a fixed up install doc, please let me know so that we can get new 1.4 ISOs rolled up with the new documentation.

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-08-10 03:47:41 UTC]

Will do

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-08-11 06:02:35 UTC]

Installation instructions are now fixed. Closing...