On Sunday 07 June 2009 19:02:54 Rod wrote: > Hi. > > This issue is really pissing me off, I have ried almost all the > fixes, even to the point of booting and copying a Stage3 tarball over > the running system and doing a Stage3 Install. > > No matter what I do, and for almost ALL packages I get .. > * Portage patch failed to apply (ltmain.sh version 1.5.24)! > * Please bug azarah or vapier to add proper patch. > * > * ERROR: dev-libs/gmp-4.3.1 failed. > * Call stack: > * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_unpack > * environment, line 2811: Called elibtoolize > * environment, line 1065: Called die > * The specific snippet of code: > * die "Portage patch failed to apply!"; > * The die message: > * Portage patch failed to apply! > > For this package and everything else I wish to apply, this is > locking my system in time so I can no longer upgrade any software ;o(
Assuming that this is a problem on your end (no-one else is reporting portage problems), let's look at why patch is failing. If you manually unpack the distfile and try to patch it, what errors do you get? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
