Bug 141045 – app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r4 file format not recognized

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

[Description Toralf Förster 2006-07-19 07:42:45 UTC]

Saw this while emerging:

...
>>> Unpacking fam-2.7.0-dnotify.patch to /var/tmp/portage/fam-2.7.0-r4/work
unpack fam-2.7.0-dnotify.patch: file format not recognized. Ignoring.
 * Applying fam-2.7.0-largefiles.patch ...                                                                                    [ ok ]
...


Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups dlloader dri emboss encode fam fastbuild foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog javascript jpeg libg++ libwww logrotate mad mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff udev unicode userlocales vorbis xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 07:50:36 UTC]

So? It works just fine...

unpack fam-2.7.0-dnotify.patch: file format not recognized. Ignoring.
 * Applying fam-2.7.0-largefiles.patch ...                                                                                                [ ok ]
 * Applying fam-2.7.0-dnotify.patch ...                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * Applying fam-2.7.0-limits.patch ...                                                                                                    [ ok ]
 * Applying fam-2.7.0-gcc41.patch ...                                                                                                     [ ok ]
 * Using GNU config files from /usr/share/libtool
 *   Updating config.sub                                                                                                                  [ ok ]
 *   Updating config.guess                                                                                                                [ ok ]
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
 * Running elibtoolize in: fam-2.7.0
 *   Applying max_cmd_len-1.5.0.patch ...
 *   Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ...
 *   Applying uclibc-conf-1.2.0.patch ...
>>> Source unpacked.

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2006-07-19 07:59:06 UTC]

And _where_ is the file ? :

tfoerste@n22 /usr/portage/app-admin/fam/files $ ls -l /usr/portage/app-admin/fam/files
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 Feb 26 00:35 digest-fam-2.7.0-r4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 724 Nov 28  2005 fam-2.7.0-gcc41.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 326 Apr 29  2005 fam-2.7.0-largefiles.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 May 29  2005 fam-2.7.0-limits.patch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490 Oct 28  2004 famd

The error message seems IMHO not clear enough. ANd the ebuild should be cleaned if the patch is no longer needed.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 08:02:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> And _where_ is the file ? :

In ${DISTDIR} (/usr/portage/distfiles usually) - just check the ebuild. And no, it should not be cleaned up, as it's still used (as you can see above).

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2006-07-19 08:30:52 UTC]

Ough, ok sorry for my rant.
The problem seems to be, that the file is already uncompressed, isn't it ?

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 08:34:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> The problem seems to be, that the file is already uncompressed, isn't it ?

Yeah, there's not much need to tarball it as it's 25K unpacked... The message just tells you that it's not packed.