Bug 500788 – www-client/firefox-27.0 - src_install(): cp: cannot stat '/usr/portage/www-client/firefox/files/gentoo-default-prefs.js-1': No such file or directory

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2014-02-09 15:04:42 UTC]

Created attachment 369958 [details]
build log

after 1 hour of compile time :-(  :

ERROR: install
ERROR: www-client/firefox-27.0::gentoo failed (install phase):
  (no error message)

Call stack:
    ebuild.sh, line  93:  Called src_install
  environment, line 4996:  Called die
The specific snippet of code:
      cp "${FILESDIR}"/gentoo-default-prefs.js-1 "${S}/${obj_dir}/dist/bin/browser/defaults/preferences/all-gentoo.js" || die;

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2014-02-09 16:54:09 UTC]

How big would be the effort to enhance the ebuild QA check to avoid such errors ?

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2014-02-09 18:34:55 UTC]

(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #1)
> How big would be the effort to enhance the ebuild QA check to avoid such
> errors ?

The file is avaliable. It is used in fx-24.x as well. Your mirror is either out of sync or there is another problem all together.

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2014-02-09 19:01:15 UTC]

(In reply to Jory A. Pratt from comment #2)
> Your mirror is either out of sync or there is another problem all together.
syncing again brought the file back - hmm  ?