Hi, tried to bootstrap the Gentoo Prefix using Gentoo commit dc2122624ddc25b65d65051eb4c27b55b3d1ad07 (Dec 14, 2022). Bootstrapping fails during stage 2 for package bison-3.8.2-r2 with the error message ln: failed to create symbolic link '/cvmfs/pilot.eessi-hpc.org/versions/2022.11/compat/linux/aarch64/tmp/usr/bin/yacc': File exists * ERROR: sys-devel/bison-3.8.2-r2::gentoo failed (postinst phase): * (no error message) * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 127: Called pkg_postinst * environment, line 1602: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * ln -s yacc.bison "${EROOT}/usr/bin/yacc" || die; In early November 2022 bootstrapping worked (Gentoo commit cec3214ef5d5661e28c9d2c5b5750b27c27c5435, Nov 3, 2022). Version of bison then was 3.8.2. Let me know if you need more information. Best regards Thomas
Hi, I experienced the same error today (Jan 11, 2023). Since it is a file collision I guess it is related to this news item: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-news/blob/master/2022-12-27-alternatives-introduction/2022-12-27-alternatives-introduction.en.txt where also app-alternatives/yacc was introduced. From the news it seems like the collision could be ignored, but the bootstrap still fails. Cheers APN
It's got to be because it exists but isn't a symlink: -h FILE FILE exists and is a symbolic link (same as -L)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aa1d9b702b2f2ae20082028c5ee9436a40879755 commit aa1d9b702b2f2ae20082028c5ee9436a40879755 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-01-13 09:49:40 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-01-13 10:01:11 +0000 sys-devel/bison: adapt pkg_postinst for prefix bootstrapping The file may exist as it was manually built and it's okay to just ignore it for now as it'll get washed out during stage3. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886123 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> sys-devel/bison/bison-3.8.2-r2.ebuild | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ef1e3dad5e18f887a56ae06c02eff74ab5c33a40 commit ef1e3dad5e18f887a56ae06c02eff74ab5c33a40 Author: Yifeng Li <tomli@tomli.me> AuthorDate: 2023-04-23 16:43:02 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-23 19:12:59 +0000 app-arch/tar: adapt pkg_postinst for prefix bootstrapping This commit allows Portage to overwrite the binary executable "tar" with a symbolic link, this situation is encountered during Gentoo prefix bootstrap. If left unhandled, it causes the bootstrap to fail with the error message: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/Users/ec2-user/gentoo/tmp/bin/tar': File exists The original binary is renamed to tar.bak. [sam: This is analogous to sys-devel/bison's hack too.] Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886123 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/904887 Suggested-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Yifeng Li <tomli@tomli.me> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/30723 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-arch/tar/tar-1.34-r2.ebuild | 7 +++++++ app-arch/tar/tar-1.34-r3.ebuild | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
