"John P. Burkett" <burk...@uri.edu> posted 49fc9720.1010...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Sat, 02 May 2009 14:55:28 -0400:
> On a x86 machine running Linux version 2.6.20-gentoo-r6, I tried emerge > texlive-latexextra. > The response began with > [Errno 7] Argument list too long: > A related problem was discussed at > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262647 Although that bug is > classified as "fixed", I'm still stuck. Suggestions for emerging > texlive-latexextra would be greatly appreciated. Did you note the portage versions it says it's fixed in? Have you updated portage to one of those versions? You didn't say so, and they are new enough, it's worth asking. (I was going to mention that a new portage version fixed a problem like that, but then noticed you already had a bug URL posted for it. But you didn't specifically say you'd already updated portage, only that you were still having the problem, thus the question, given it's apparently a portage bug, not a texlive bug.) Meanwhile, you should be able to avoid the issue by manually downloading the source file and placing it in distfiles, then running emerge. That way, portage doesn't have to fetch it as it's already there, and the length of the commandline to do so shouldn't matter. Note that for certain fetch-restricted packages (normally proprietaryware that you have to agree to the EULA on and/or purchase, before downloading) this is required in any case, altho for that sort of package portage normally spits out instructions, where it's not here as it's a bug. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
