Bug 597158

Summary:	app-portage/g-cpan-0.16.5: should it add 'perl-gcpan' to '/etc/portage/catagories'?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	sphakka <marcoep>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-569126-highlight-gcpan+category.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description sphakka 2016-10-15 08:46:52 UTC

g-cpan refuses to install (all?) packages as they are in category 'perl-gcpan', which is unknown to the system. This seems a pretty old issue (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-569126-highlight-gcpan+category.html), so maybe I am missing something...

As in URL above, 

  # echo perl-gcpan > /etc/portage/categories

solves this issue. Should it be done at g-cpan installation?

Comment 1 sphakka 2016-10-15 08:48:46 UTC

Meanwhile, a mention of this could be added to the Wiki page https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/g-cpan

Comment 2 Sergiy Borodych 2016-10-18 09:49:15 UTC

I'm not sure if we should done this during installation.
Are there examples of this?

And yes, adding note to postinst message and wiki will help.

Comment 3 Sergiy Borodych 2016-10-21 14:31:00 UTC

I've analyze a code little and found what g-cpan should manage this.
Seems like it was solved a long time ago.
I've tested that by remove/empty /etc/portage/categories and all fine after first run of g-cpan.
Could you please provide more details for the case (with logs).