Bug 193829 – app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 failed patch

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description mhb3 2007-09-26 03:29:35 UTC]

I try "emerge vmware-modules" and I get an error. The most relevant line:
"Failed Patch: 010_all_makefile-vm-build-no-unused-warnings.patch!" See the attachments for the full text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "emerge vmware-modules"
Actual Results:  
Portage failed, and gave me an error message.

Expected Results:  
Portage should have continued as expected and installed the package.

* Failed Patch: 010_all_makefile-vm-build-no-unused-warnings.patch !
* ( /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/patches/010_all_makefile-v
m-build-no-unused-warnings.patch )
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/010_all_makefile-vm-build-no-unused-warnings.patch-9820.out
*
* ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 1654: Called dyn_unpack
* ebuild.sh, line 768: Called qa_call 'src_unpack'
* ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack
* ebuild.sh, line 1334: Called vmware-mod_src_unpack
* vmware-mod.eclass, line 80: Called epatch '/usr/portage/app-emulation/vmw
are-modules/files/patches'
* eutils.eclass, line 304: Called die
*
* Failed Patch: 010_all_makefile-vm-build-no-unused-warnings.patch!
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if rele
vant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/build.log'.
*

[Comment 1 mhb3 2007-09-26 03:33:56 UTC]

Created attachment 131921 [details]
The contents of the message from trying to patch the ebuild.

This is the
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/010_all_makefile-vm-build-no-unused-warnings.patch-9820.out
file that I was asked to submit with the bug report.

[Comment 2 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2007-09-26 08:17:02 UTC]

Hi Mhb3,

It appears that your portage sync is not correctly deleting old files.  As you can see from the following URL:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/patches/?hideattic=0

The particular patch you mentioned is marked as dead (meaning it's been removed from the repository) and it shows that it was removed 4 months ago.  Please double check in emerge --info that your PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS contains at least "--delete"?

The reason this patch was deleted was because the patch was rolled into vmware-any-any-update109.  We're now on vmware-any-any-update113.  The odd thing is that there's pretty much no way you should have been able to emerge an ebuild that used both that old patch and the new vmware-any-any sources, because you should have had a digest error of either the patch being extra or the sources being missing?  Did you run emerge with --digest when you tried to install this?

So, after all that, please post your emerge --info.  Check your rsync options, ensure you're not using a vmware overlay and then emerge --sync.  After that the modules should build without a problem.  Please let us know how you get on and what you find out, thanks...  5:)