On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 18:59, maxim wexler <bliss...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi group,
>
Hi,

> Will somebody please explain this:
>
> kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc
> These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1  USE="-debug (-n32)" 48,765 kB
> Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 48,765 kB
> Would you like to fetch the source files for these packages? [Yes/No] yes
>
>>>> Fetching (1 of 1) dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1
>>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2'
> --10:47:13--  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
>           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2'
> ...
>
> Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I 
> checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing 
> linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird.

I checked the ebuild and it seems that klibc needs the kernel sources to build.

Nothing wrong with portage ;)

regards,

Boris.
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> Maxim
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