Summary: | app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 in screen - die "Please emerge this package using a different terminal" | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Heinrich Götzger <goetzger> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | atle.pedersen |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Heinrich Götzger
2008-11-16 01:40:36 UTC
Forgot to mention: emerge vmware-player out of a screen session works fine and as expected. Apparently that's a feature of the ebuild, a workaround to the build system... But maybe it's not apparent enough that it's a feature? Heinrich, you're correct. Vmware-player-2.5 and vmware-workstation-2.5 won't build in screen, because vmware's python installer will die midway through since it never expected None to be returned for the value tested. To avoid people complaining about vmware mysteriously rolling back, I added a check in, warning users to build vmware-player in a different terminal. Therefore: please build vmware in a different terminal. I'm going to mark this as INVALID, since it's not really a bug, it's trying to help you. If you feel that something could be done to improve the situation, please feel free to re-open this bug, and let me know... Personally I don't think this should be marked as INVALID. Although the spesific reason emerge stops is a feature, the underlying problem still exits, and it still breaks emerge. In my opinion the bug should be reopened until a fix for the underlying problem has been found, and the feature can be removed again. |