Bug 6942

Summary:	Portage relies on 'sed', so 'sed' package cannot be merged if lost.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) <agenkin>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-23 12:40:26 UTC

This is a vicious circle.  I unmerged 'supersed', which removed /usr/bin/sed
binary.  Now "emerge sed" fails because portage cannot find "sed" utility.  Doh!

Not sure whether this can be helped, though, but I thought I'd file a bug
anyway. ;^)

bashful root # emerge sed 
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge sys-apps/sed-3.02.80-r4 to /
>>> md5 ;-) sed-3.02.80.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sed-3.02.80.tar.gz
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: sed: command not found
>>> Source unpacked.
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: ./configure: No such file or directory

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 3, Exitcode 127
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/sys-apps/sed/sed-3.02.80-r4.ebuild .

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-23 12:55:31 UTC

yes yes, I know.

supersed is now installed as ssed

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-28 06:06:43 UTC

well, it's not fixed but there's nothing much I can do about this one, since
supersed already installs itself as ssed and the system sed won't be touched
anymore...