Bug 27566 – Xfree wont install from GRP

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Martin McDermott 2003-08-29 14:37:29 UTC]

Portage will skip to ebuilds when its installing Xfree.

after i install xfree from the disc and run 'emerge -p xfree' i get
cabextract is new(and not installed)
xfree is marked R

X -showconfig say command not found, x never gets installed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="bindist" emerge -k xfree 
2. emerge -p xfree
3.

Actual Results:  
X wasnt installed

Expected Results:  
X being installed

Alot of the GRP are broken

GRPs could be very usefull, then we would only have to compile things once per 
versio-arch.

Why release it if it wont work, no one will be warned and if no one will take 
responsibilty? This is all Gentoo has.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-09-03 21:56:27 UTC]

I am not quite sure I understand the bug. USE="bindist" emerge xfree should install xfree, does it? When you do it without bindist, it will want to merge cabextract since it will try to install the Microsoft Web fonts. Is X merging? If not, what error do you see?

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-09-04 18:25:16 UTC]

Rereading this report, it does sound like xfree got installed and what you saw is expected behavior, so I'm closing this bug.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:12 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.