Bug 608402 – app-portage/g-cpan-0.16.9 - fails to install Image-OCR-Tesseract due to ambiguous Test-Base

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Juergen Rose 2017-02-06 09:20:44 UTC]

'g-cpan -i Image-OCR-Tesseract' fails with:
...
 * Ebuild generated for Image-OCR-Tesseract
>>> Creating Manifest for /var/lib/cpan/perl-gcpan/Image-OCR-Tesseract
Calculating dependencies |

  
[ Results for search key : Test-Base ]
*  dev-perl/Test-Base
      Latest version available: 0.880.0
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 51 KiB
      Homepage:      http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Base/
      Description:   A Data Driven Testing Framework
      License:       || ( Artistic GPL-1+ )

*  perl-gcpan/Test-Base
      Latest version available: 0.88
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 51 KiB
      Homepage:      http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Base/
      Description:   A Data Driven Testing Framework
      License:       || ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )

[ Applications found : 4 ]

!!! The short ebuild name "Test-Base" is ambiguous. Please specify
!!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead.

... done!

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2017-03-16 22:48:53 UTC]

(In reply to Juergen Rose from comment #0)
> 'g-cpan -i Image-OCR-Tesseract' fails with:
> ...

> 
> *  perl-gcpan/Test-Base
>       Latest version available: 0.88
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of files: 51 KiB
>       Homepage:      http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Base/
>       Description:   A Data Driven Testing Framework
>       License:       || ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )
> 
> [ Applications found : 4 ]
> 
> !!! The short ebuild name "Test-Base" is ambiguous. Please specify
> !!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead.
> 
> ... done!

That one is your own problem... locally generated by g-cpan in a previous run probably.