Bug 49762 – sys-devel/crossdev-0.4-r1 doesn't install without --stable or giving versions of tools

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-05-02 14:53:23 UTC]

~ $  crossdev --arch=amd64 --kernel -p

 * No valid binutils packages were found.  If you're using unstable packages, then this means
   that no binutils packages were found with unstable keywords.  Mark a package as unstable, or use
   stable packages.

Here's the fix:
--- /usr/bin/crossdev.orig      2004-05-02 14:43:20.635223000 -0700
+++ /usr/bin/crossdev   2004-05-02 14:44:02.975223000 -0700
@@ -816,6 +816,9 @@
                tmp_gentoo_keyw="~${tmp_gentoo_keyw} ${tmp_gentoo_keyw}"
                local GENTOO_KEYW_TMP="~${GENTOO_KEYW} ${GENTOO_KEYW}"
                local CROSS_KEYW_TMP="~${CROSS_KEYW} ${CROSS_KEYW}"
+       else
+               local GENTOO_KEYW_TMP="${GENTOO_KEYW}"
+               local CROSS_KEYW_TMP="${CROSS_KEYW}"
        fi

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-06-19 21:27:28 UTC]

Created attachment 33613 [details, diff]
crossdev-2.6.patch

this patch fixes the mentioned problem above (failing w/o --unstable).	It also
allows linux-headers-2.6 to install

[Comment 2 Joshua Kinard 2004-07-01 00:47:08 UTC]

*** Bug 44889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-03-03 17:36:44 UTC]

<=crossdev-0.4 is no longer supported ... please upgrade to crossdev-0.9 and if
you're still having problems, re-open the bug and re-assign to [e-mail]