help2man 1.33 fails as dependecy for coreutils

linuxbum

Hello everybody:

During emerge -uv world coreutils requires help2man 1.33.1
but it fails with this error found in bugsville https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42290
it looks like they patched sandbox.
But I have no idea how to apply this fix, nor can i find new version of sandbox. I did see sandboxshell but not sure if it the same thing.
Check gentoo-portage site but nothing seems to match 100%

I tried help2man 1.29 but it still wants to upgrade to 1.33.1.
The portage site list 1.33.1 as ~ for sparc.

Any ideas???

Weeve · Retired Dev Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641

Sandbox is part of the portage package. A quick workaround is to use the following command to emerge help2man;

linuxbum · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

Weeve

Thanks for the information.
So for my own brain cells.
the USE flag removes National Language Support right ?
in the ebuild was this just a sparc error ?
The bugfix should mention the quick fix but I understand
if it only contains the real bug and fix information.
Thanks again.

Weeve · Retired Dev Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641

Yeah, nls is for native language support. If you don't need it, you can also add -nls to your USE statement in make.conf The nls useflag is enabled by default so this is why you ran into it.