Bug 122653

Summary:	emerge net-tools absent
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Aaron Sheldon <asheldon>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aaron Sheldon 2006-02-13 01:07:12 UTC

For reasons I don't understand, net-tools are not included in an

emerge -e system

and it is not mentioned in the quick install guide.

One of two solutions would be nice -  either add net-tools to "system" (which, I think, would be the better solution) or mention it in the quick install so that when someone uses it to jog his memory for all the steps, that all the steps are included.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-13 01:23:24 UTC

# emerge -Cav net-tools

>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:


!!! 'sys-apps/net-tools' is part of your system profile.
!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.

# grep net-tools /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages
*sys-apps/net-tools

Comment 2 Aaron Sheldon 2006-02-13 01:37:46 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> # emerge -Cav net-tools
> 
> >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
> 
> 
> !!! 'sys-apps/net-tools' is part of your system profile.
> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
> 
> # grep net-tools /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages
> *sys-apps/net-tools
> 


If I understand your response correctly, you mean to say that "emerge -e system" should be emerging net-tools.  Since it has not on the last two installations of Gentoo I did (a thinkpad and a gaming desktop, with vastly different configurations), should I submit another type of bug?  I don't mean that it failed to emerge net-tools, I mean it didn't even try to emerge net-tools.  As "part of your system profile", this is kind of frustrating.

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-13 02:30:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

#emerge -epv system

<snip>
...

[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/file-4.13  USE="-build python" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r11  USE="-build nls -static" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/nano-1.3.9  USE="-build -debug -justify -minimal ncurses nls -slang -spell unicode" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r3  USE="-doc -ipv6 -static" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.22  USE="nls" 0 kB
</snip>

net-tools package is a part of base profile and so it is installed on any Gentoo system that has that profile as a parent (i.e., almost all profiles except embedded).

Definitely not a documentation bug.