When I try to emerge fluxbox on a new install, installation fails on installing fontconfig. Portage can not find a required patch file. /usr/portage/media-libs/fontconfig/files/patch/fontconfig-2.1-cvs-update-20021221.patch As this is a dependency for X, that highly limits the usefulness of this box in its intended purpose. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge fluxbox Actual Results: helpdesk2 root # emerge fluxbox Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 4) media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) fcpackage.2_1.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking fcpackage.2_1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.1-r1/work * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/media-libs/fontconfig/files/patch/fontconfig-2.1-cvs-update- 20021221.patch !!! ERROR: media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 182, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Expected Results: emerged and install fluxbox and all dependencies Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-mips-2004.1, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.26-mipscvs-20040415) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-mipscvs-20040415 mips R4600 V2.0 FPU V2.0 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 mips-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="mips" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mips3 -mabi=32 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="mips-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mips3 -mabi=32 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="X berkdb crypt dga gdbm gpm kerb libwww mips nis opengl oss pam perl python readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd xv zlib"
dunno where that patch went, i thought everything 2.1 related got ressurrected. Use the ~mips version of fontconfig. mips peepz, please mark a newer fontconfig stable, 2.1 is ancient
I made fontconfig-2.2.2 stable on mips...should fix the problem without having to unmask it yourself.