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Bug 34049 - dispatch-conf error
Summary: dispatch-conf error
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Highest critical (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-11-21 11:58 UTC by Marcus J. van Dijk, Jr.
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus J. van Dijk, Jr. 2003-11-21 11:58:32 UTC
serena etc # emerge gnewspost
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 3) app-arch/cfv-1.15 to /
dispatch-conf: Config archive dir [/etc/config-archive] must exist; fatal
serena etc #

happens too after emerge rsync and emerge sync, which both do work.
Comment 1 Marcus J. van Dijk, Jr. 2003-11-21 13:04:11 UTC
Additional info: my system is a standard gentoo 1.4 system with ~x86.
Comment 2 Marcus J. van Dijk, Jr. 2003-11-21 13:19:30 UTC
when making /etc/config-archive and trying to emerge; following error occurs:

root # emerge gentoolkit
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.36 to /
>>> Merging app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.36 to /
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2153, in ?
    mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1357, in merge
    retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1926, in doebuild
    return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2045, in merge
    return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 5137, in merge
    return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4755, in treewalk
    lcfile=open(inforoot+"/COUNTER","w")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/portage/gentoolkit-0.1.36/build-info/COUNTER'
root #
Comment 3 Marcus J. van Dijk, Jr. 2003-11-23 07:29:55 UTC
It was my best option to do what is in README.RESCUE. Guess I can throw this bug away.