--- !empty dir /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES --- !empty dir /usr/share/locale/cs --- !empty dir /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES --- !empty dir /usr/share/locale/ca --- !empty dir /usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES --- !empty dir /usr/share/locale/be --- !empty dir /usr/share/locale --- !empty dir /usr/share/info --- !empty dir /usr/share/doc --- !empty dir /usr/share --- !empty dir /usr/bin --- !empty dir /usr --- !empty dir /bin /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 8: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1: id: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1182: [: ==: unary operator expected /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 114: tty: command not found eutils >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... Bad switch -d * Could not create needed directory '/var/lib/init.d/softscripts'! Bad switch -d * Could not create needed directory '/var/lib/init.d/snapshot'! Bad switch -d * Could not create needed directory '/var/lib/init.d/options'! Bad switch -d * Could not create needed directory '/var/lib/init.d/started'! /sbin/depscan.sh: line 31: rm: command not found sh: line 1: ls: command not found bash: line 1: ommand not found bash: line 1: 01m*: command not found sh: line 1: rm: command not found :0: assertion failed: system(rm -f /var/lib/init.d/deptree) [ !! ]d to cache service dependencies * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 92 info files: 1 errors; run with emerge --verbose to view errors. h52 root # emerge sh-utils Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 2) sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5 to / /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 114: tty: command not found eutils /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 512: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 513: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 516: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 522: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 523: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 524: rm: command not found >>> md5 src_uri ;-) coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) coreutils-gentoo-1.8.1.tar.bz2 /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 8: rm: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1: id: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1182: [: ==: unary operator expected /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1238: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5/coreutils-5.0-r5.ebuild: No such file or directory !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5 failed. !!! Function , Line 1238, Exitcode 1 !!! error sourcing ebuild h52 root # Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
uhh, what?? did you really just report this ?? you gonna report rm -rf /usr/bin /bin leaves your system unusable next ?? why would you unmerge coreutils ?
Look, there is sh-utils and file-utils package available. It seems they are empty packages and when you install them, coreutils get silently installed. I propose deleting those packages from the tree. Then I wouldn't have the feeling that I *can* uninstall coreutils and revert to their predecessors. There are serious considerations with POSIX settings while you compile coreutils. For example, "tail -1" doesn't work anymore, as Gentoo is set to the latest POSIX standard. But inavailability of "tail -1" and other commands behaviour brakes some tools. Thereofre, as I as a user cannot affect the POSIX variable settings for this very specific package, I wanted to downgrade to file-utils etc. And hey, I had to scp several files from another machines /usr/bin. ;) Mask sh-utils and file-utils, find a way to prevent user from unmerging coreutils.
they are empty, but they RDEPEND on coreutils -- RDEPEND == runtime dependency. So, those packages exist, and they will be phased out of the tree in due course -- probably within the next month or so. Meanwhile, install coreutils-5.0.91-r4 to discover that your expected behaviour for head and tail and sort and a few other things exists :) -r4 will become stable on at least x86 and hppa by later today anyway.
