Bug 48687

Summary:	Perl5 Stage2 'emerge system' error
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John Thompson <jthompson>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	2004.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Thompson 2004-04-22 07:28:56 UTC

I had just unzipped the stage 2 pentium III tarball on a pentium III machine.  In the handbook I contiuned along until I came to the 'emerge system' command.  There were about 64 packages that had to be downloaded and installed.  On the second or third package, it was installing files into the /usr/lib/perl5 directory.  Before it was able to complete and go onto the next package there was a message proclaiming that I needed perl 5 on my system to install it.  The compiler or packager stopped.  I then went into my /etc/make.conf file and removed perl from the USE flag variable.  I ran 'emerge system' again and it continued on past the perl library package and installed properly.  I don't know if this is supposed to happen or if this is a bug, however, it seems you cannot put the perl USE flag into /etc/make.conf on a stage 2 installation before emerge system is completed.

Comment 1 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-21 13:25:58 UTC

Wranglers - please reassign this. This is a livecd/buildcd issue, not a perl issue.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-11 12:18:19 UTC

Obsolete bug. Please reopen if it still does not work with 2005.1 stage2.