I've been trying to use quickpkg to speed up the installation process on some of my friends' machines until I can build a stage3 tarball. Quickpkg was working fine last week, but now (I presume after a portage update) it's being very picky. Before, I could specify the short name of a package (e.g. less), and quickpkg would figure out what to do with it. Now when I try that, I get the following: Code: # quickpkg less cat: less/PF: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `less/*': No such file or directory cut: less/CONTENTS: No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `/tmp/portage//temp/CONTENTS': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `/tmp/portage//temp/*': No such file or directory If I cd over to /var/db/pkg/ and attempt to quickpkg the package's long name (sys-apps/less-381), it will package everything and create a .tbz2 in /usr/portage/packages/All, but will no longer create a symlink under /usr/portage/packages/sys-apps (or create the directory, for that matter). It was doing this fine before. When quickpkg starts work on a package, it throws these two lines, but continues normally and seems to succeed (it creates a usable package under /usr/portage/packages/All/): Code: rm: cannot remove `/tmp/portage/less-381/temp': No such file or directory tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Also, quickpkging creates a file called .tbz2 in /usr/portage/packages/All. Code: # ls -al .tbz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 Jul 30 12:24 .tbz2 # du .tbz2 4 .tbz2 # du -h .tbz2 4.0K .tbz2 The resulting packages in /usr/portage/packages/All DO work, but the .tbz2 file needs to be removed to surpress warnings, and I had to write a script to generate the symlinks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Attempt to use quickpkg to build binary packages already merged packages. See above. Actual Results: See above. Expected Results: See above. Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib svga tcltk java mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl cdr acpi dga dvd emacs ethereal fbcon flash gd gtk2 imap jikes lirc moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg pcmcia plotutils pnp samba sse tiff trusted usb wmf xinerama xml -3dnow -esd -gnome -ldap" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
upgrade your portage ... -r5 is the last version that uses this bunk quickpkg ... it has been completely redone in -r7 and the 49_pre's ... you probably upgraded to -r6 at some point which had the newer quickpkg (and support short names), but r6 was removed because of certain issues ... that means you now have r5 (which your `emerge info` shows) ... that is the original version that requires you to specifcy full path to /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/less-381 if you dont want to upgrade your portage, you could always just do this: `ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.48-r7 clean unpack` and then grab the quickpkg script from the temp directory
Thanks for the solution; seems to be fine now. Any chance that this could get added to the changelog? The one in /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage is virtually empty, all recent ones in CVS tree (linked as http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ from www.gentoo.org) have no mention of quickpkg, and the link in the changelogs themselves (http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/portage/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup) is broken.
