I have set the use flags SOU and HOU for nwn. When emerging nwn-data it downloads the nwresources129.tar.gz file which is very large and takes a long time to download and gave me an error afterwards to use cdinstall for HOU and/or SOU. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.set use flag HOU and SOU 2.dont set use flag cdinstall 3.emerge nwn-data Actual Results: * Messages for package games-rpg/nwn-data-1.29-r4: * If you really want to install SoU and/or HoU, you must * emerge with USE=cdinstall. * ERROR: games-rpg/nwn-data-1.29-r4 failed (unpack phase): * SoU and/or HoU require USE=cdinstall. * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_unpack * environment, line 2898: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "SoU and/or HoU require USE=cdinstall."; Expected Results: I expect to be informed of the required use flag before the download. I think its also bad style to have 3 use flags which depend on each other but can be set independently.
Can you please give me the following information: - What version of portage did you use? - What media did you install from (original, platinum, diamond, 3-in-1, etc...) Other than that I agree with you. The NWN ebuilds are among the most complicated in the tree right now, were written a long time ago and portage has evolved alot since then, and they are very complicated due to a long history and a desire to support all kinds of media that were available at some time. It is also very hard to debug because, although I have a few different medias to verify, my budget doesn't allow me to buy them all. And some were not available everywhere. So a lot of the code in the ebuilds was written with users' help and got less testing coverage than ideal. It's actually quite amazing that they are still working more or less well today with all the customization we have added (videos, concurrent international installs, hardware mouse, saves in $HOME, etc...). What I'm thinking right now is we should make cdinstall mandatory or at least default on. Nowadays there are not many reasons to install the old way (i.e. from a previous windows install). If you can suggest another way to fix your particular problem I'll be pleased to try and implement it. nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon Denis.
Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6-i686-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_965_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.25-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo x-portage-overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 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I emerged without cdinstall and with nowin set because I dont have my CDs nor an installed windows atm. I have the original 3xNWN 1xSOU 1xHOU packages. The first fix for the ebuild I would like to see is to bring the error that hou or sou requires cdinstall before anything get downloaded. the second would be to make cdinstall mandatory in case sou or hou are set and search for the mounted cds before anything gets downloaded. After its confirmed the cds or images thereof are present only then should the install proceed. Whether the nowin use flag should still be supported i dont really know but there is a linux nwn installer at http://www.icculus.org/~ravage/nwn/ available. Also 5 seconds of googling got me this installation guide to install nwn on linux at http://ldots.org/nwn
I have tried to do some changes to the ebuild. You can explicitly require USE=cdinstall to be set when either USE=sou or hou is set with: REQUIRED_USE="sou? ( cdinstall ) hou? ( cdinstall )" but this requires EAPI 4 which the games eclass doesn't support atm ( doesn't seem to be too hard to update it). Another way is to add a check for it earlier in the ebuild (but that won't help to stop it from downloading the tarball). the other is to make the nwresources tarball optional and only download it when USE="nowin -hou -sou": SRC_URI="... nowin? ( !hou? ( !sou? ( ${NOWINSRC_URI} ${LINGUAS_SRC_URI} ) ) ) ..." but the tarball is required even when USE=cdinstall" is used (around line 460-470 in 1.29-r4). Is this because it includes updated files?
