From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Johansson" Subject: Re: Re: xenning gentoo Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:39:09 -0500 Message-ID: <420FBAED.2010504@harvee.org> References: <41B3A8E4.60508@harvee.org> <41F7ECA0.1080205@harvee.org> <41F93D31.4070403@insightful.co.nz> <200501281502.55939.jdmason@us.ibm.com> <41FABB38.3000008@insightful.co.nz> <420CC301.8030402@harvee.org> <420D16E2.4040809@insightful.co.nz> <420F5CD8.20804@harvee.org> <20050213200524.GM32410@sphinx.wwc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050213200524.GM32410@sphinx.wwc.edu> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Barry G Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Barry G wrote: > Eric, > > I had the exact same problem when I tried the ebuild. Turns > out I had downloaded it with wget (I.E. > wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=50718). Although > the ebuild looked perfect, it wined about mount-boot and > had the weird error were words were ran together > (inherit()sr/portage/eclass/mount-boot). > > To fix it, I went to the site of the above ebuild and copied and > pasted it into a vim session (using :a in vim). !Do'H! wget returns dos format text. there are multiple ways of converting to the one true format (unix). I'm now building and ever hopeful. this "feature" always bites me when I least expect it. > It then worked as an ebuild should. > Unfortunately, It then gave me the errors that I logged on bugzilla. maybe a problem with cut and paste. try wget and convert to unix text (emacs, nano, tr, ???) > I don't know what the root cause of the wget'ed ebuild problem was. > Invisible characters? na, it was 2 (dos) characters... ;-) more updates later --- eric -- http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html The basis of Abelard's philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the truth. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click