Bug 20895

Summary:	emerge calls to "perl" and "java-config" when they are not installed.
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED) <fede2>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Sparc Porters <sparc>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-12 22:28:29 UTC

With a recently bootstraped system (exactly right after the scripts/bootstrap.sh
from the code listing 8.7 mentioned at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-install.xml) I run "emerge -f
some_packages" and if some of the packages of there dependences are perl modules
or java related, they call to perl and to java-config, even if they don't exist.

I know that someone will probably anwer "Wait until the emerge system is
complete", but one should be able to just download stuff while wainting, right?
Also, emerge should know better than to call binaries that don't exist.

Comment 1 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-18 22:29:13 UTC

Thanks for filing a bug.

Have you seen the updated installation documentation at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~blademan/sparc-install-doc.html

There are newer CD images and stage tarballs available. Please see if your problem persists.

Thanks,

Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-19 19:58:07 UTC

Can you give some examples of the packages you were attempting to fetch?

Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-30 12:16:16 UTC

no responce