Bug 31641

Summary:	During initial emerge system, xfree ebuild fails because no kernel sources merged yet
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Alan <amonroe>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alan 2003-10-20 18:25:16 UTC

Was building from scratch starting with a stage1 tarball from the pentium3 version of the 1.4 livecd. Bootstrap went fine, then I started emerge system. Xfree refused to compile, giving me "could not determine your kernel version".

My best guess to workaround was to emerge gentoo-sources, then emerge sytem again. Remains to be seen if that will work successfully. Should the install instructions should be modified to merge the kernel sources BEFORE emerge system?

I did search for other bugs using search terms xfree kernel, and didn't see any, but I may have missed one.

Comment 1 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-23 11:18:13 UTC

Hi Alan

I'm sorry to say that this bug didn't receive a lot of attention.

That said, Xfree isn't, shouldn't ever have been and doubtfully ever was, part of system.

If it was a problem, it's fixed by now. ;) Do 'emerge -ep system' and see for yourself that xfree isn't in the list.

I'm closing this as INVALID. Please reopen and jump on me if it's not.

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 11:24:27 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.