Bug 611308 – Adobe Flash has no default abi. On AMD64 need to force abi_x86_64 and/or abi_x86_32 in package.use

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description unhappy-ending 2017-03-01 14:01:19 UTC]

Please see summary. With no default abi, adobe flash "successfully" installs but there are no files to install.

[Comment 1 Ben Kohler 2017-03-01 14:07:42 UTC]

It has a default, it's just not FORCED like most other packages.  You are overriding the default.

/usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults:ABI_X86="64"
/usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.force:www-plugins/adobe-flash -abi_x86_64

[Comment 2 Ben Kohler 2017-03-01 14:09:47 UTC]

Fresh stage3:

gentoo ~ # ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" emerge -pvO adobe-flash

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

[ebuild  N     ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-24.0.0.221-r1:22::gentoo  USE="nsplugin ppapi" ABI_X86="64 -32 (-x32)" 18729 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 18729 KiB

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gentoo ~ #

[Comment 3 unhappy-ending 2017-03-01 14:12:59 UTC]

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"

Interesting because I have this set in my make.conf. None of the other packages in my system require me to force the abi. Is there something I don't have setup correctly? Would you like to see my emerge --info?

[Comment 4 Ben Kohler 2017-03-01 14:14:08 UTC]

I'd guess you have -* in your USE variable in make.conf, nuking all USE and USE_EXPAND defaults.  If it's not that, can you attach make.conf?

[Comment 5 unhappy-ending 2017-03-01 14:23:16 UTC]

Actually, I do since I manually set use flags on a per package basis but that hasn't affected the arch for the 800+ packages I've installed.

I checked emerge --info for USE_EXPAND, saw it has ABI_X86 and set that in my make.conf, which fixed it.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll double check the other USE_EXPAND variables now, thank you.