Bug 30702 – Info errors when emerge'ing certain packages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paul Moore 2003-10-08 15:42:59 UTC]

I get the following error (-v flag used with emerge) on certain packages (this particular one was autoconf-2.57a-r1):

***
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.


 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `//usr/share/info/emodules.info.orig.gz'
 * Processed 75 info files; 1 errors.
***

Here is my emerge info output:

***
Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-alpha-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.1-r4,2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-alpha-r1 alpha EV67
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/my_gentoo"
USE="alpha encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod ncurses oss pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell truetype xml2 xmms xv gnome-libs gdbm berkdb slang readline tcltk ruby gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif mozilla ev6 ipv6 X xinerama gtk gtk2 opengl java zlib gnome cups ldap crypt mozsvg mozspellcheck -alsa -nls"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe "
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe "
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="ccache"
***

Thanks for your help.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-10-08 19:35:59 UTC]

please run `qpkg -f /usr/share/info/emodules.info.orig.gz` and tell us what
package owns it

[Comment 2 Paul Moore 2003-10-09 06:56:39 UTC]

Thanks for the quick response, here is the info you asked for:

***
[pmoore@sockpuppet ~ ]qpkg -f /usr/share/info/emodules.info.orig.gz
app-editors/xemacs *
[pmoore@sockpuppet ~ ]
***

Let me know if you need any more information.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-10-15 18:24:07 UTC]

portage devs, any hints on this?

[Comment 4 Doug Weimer 2003-10-15 23:30:39 UTC]

This fails because /usr/share/info/emodules.info.orig.gz needs to be removed
by the ebuild before installation. The .orig file is created by patch due
to a fuzzy match with 'emodules.info-21.4.8-gentoo.patch'. The line 'rm -f
${D}/usr/share/info/emodules.info~*' in the xemacs ebulids appears to be
an attempt to fix this, but the backup file created is named emodules.info.orig
so ~* doesn't work.

To fix this either update the patch to properly match each xemacs version
or add 'rm -f ${D}/usr/share/info/emodules.info.orig'.

The fuzzy match occurs because the patch is based on version 21.4.8 and the
"makeinfo version" line in emodules.info is different in newer versions of
xemacs.

[Comment 5 Paul Moore 2003-10-16 10:12:56 UTC]

... so does this mean that to fix my problem i can just delete the offending
file?

[Comment 6 Doug Weimer 2003-10-16 20:55:05 UTC]

As far as I understand the way info works, yes, you can delete it. Because
the file contained an error it wouldn't have been added into the main info
directory, so you shouldn't have to update the dir file.

[Comment 7 Paul Moore 2003-11-12 09:19:59 UTC]

I just deleted the file and all is well, thanks for your help ... marking this FIXED.

[Comment 8 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-12-18 09:07:16 UTC]

*** Bug 36045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***