Bug 59668 – emerge synaptics 0.13.4 fails when patching for amd64

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Georg Schild 2004-08-07 00:25:45 UTC]

I have installed synaptics-0.13.3 and when upgrading to 0.13.4 emerge fails when it wants to patch the package for amd64. The patch needed cannot be found in /portage/x11-misc/synaptics/files/synaptics-0.13.4-amd64.patch. My $PORTDIR is set to /portage with all the subdirectories like tmp, distfiles etc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge synaptics
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Here the exact output from emerge synaptics:

$ emerge synaptics
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-misc/synaptics-0.13.4 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) synaptics-0.13.4.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking synaptics-0.13.4.tar.bz2 to /portage/tmp/portage/synaptics-0.13.4/work
 * Patching for amd64 arch...

 * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!  Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is:
 *
 *   /portage/x11-misc/synaptics/files/synaptics-0.13.4-amd64.patch


!!! ERROR: x11-misc/synaptics-0.13.4 failed.
!!! Function epatch, Line 182, Exitcode 0
!!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!



Expected Results:  
correctly install / get patched

$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1,
2.6.8-rc2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-rc2 x86_64 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/portage/tmp"
PORTDIR="/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/portage/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi aim alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups divx4linux dvd
dvdr encode esd flash foomatic foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk
gtk2 icq imlib jabber java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod ming motif mozilla mpeg
msn ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png ppds
python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype usb
xine xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib"

I am using an Acer Aspire 1501Lmi with the development-sources 2.6.8-rc2.
Installation is native amd64 without any emulation yet. X-Server is Xorg.

[Comment 1 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2004-08-08 05:34:26 UTC]

New patch is in CVS now.

[Comment 2 eipi 2004-12-29 13:07:54 UTC]

synaptics-0.13.4 works for me

[Comment 3 Georg Schild 2004-12-30 00:36:04 UTC]

0.13.4 is some months old now and the problem was fixed after a few days in cvs. closing it