malcom-tall root # emerge -u system Calculating system dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 22) sys-apps/attr-2.4.7-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) attr-2.4.7.src.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking attr-2.4.7.src.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/attr-2.4.7-r1/work * Applying attr-no-man2pages.patch... * A dry-run of patch command succeeded, but actually * applying the patch failed! * Failed Patch: attr-no-man2pages.patch! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/attr-2.4.7-r1/temp/attr-no-man2pages.patch-8856.out !!! ERROR: sys-apps/attr-2.4.7-r1 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 354, Exitcode 0 !!! Failed Patch: attr-no-man2pages.patch! I have Perforce installed (www.perforce.com) This is related to another bug I submited before http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28006 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Have Perforce Installed 1. emerge -pv attr 2. echo $PATCH_GET 3. emerge attr Workaround 4. export PATCH_GET=0 5. echo $PATCH_GET 6. emerge attr Actual Results: malcom-tall root # emerge -pv attr These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.7-r1 [2.2.0] +nls -debug malcom-tall root # echo $PATCH_GET malcom-tall root # emerge attr Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/attr-2.4.7-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) attr-2.4.7.src.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking attr-2.4.7.src.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/attr-2.4.7-r1/work * Applying attr-no-man2pages.patch... * A dry-run of patch command succeeded, but actually * applying the patch failed! * Failed Patch: attr-no-man2pages.patch! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/attr-2.4.7-r1/temp/attr-no-man2pages.patch-10332.out !!! ERROR: sys-apps/attr-2.4.7-r1 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 354, Exitcode 0 !!! Failed Patch: attr-no-man2pages.patch! malcom-tall root # export PATCH_GET=0 malcom-tall root # echo $PATCH_GET 0 malcom-tall root # emerge attr Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/attr-2.4.7-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) attr-2.4.7.src.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking attr-2.4.7.src.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/attr-2.4.7-r1/work * Applying attr-no-man2pages.patch... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. Expected Results: Correct eMerge without the workaround malcom-tall root # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.20) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i586 Pentium MMX Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.1 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aalib acl acpi apm crypt cscope cups encode fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx ncurses nls oav oggvorbis oss pam parse-clocks pdflib perl plotutils png python readline samba slang slp sox spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff x86 xml2 zlib"
this is a portage bug nick seems to refuse to fix
overrode the extra_functions.sh with eutils for now
