Fail to prepare source for sys-kernel/compat-drivers-3.8-r1

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. layman -s pentoo
2. emerge compat-drivers

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

- It should install compat-drivers
- I see this instead:

>>> Preparing source in 
/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/compat-drivers-3.8-r1/work/compat-drivers-3.8-1-u 
...
 * Applying compat-drivers-3.8-bt_tty.patch ...                                                                  [ ok ]
 * Applying compat-drivers-3.8-ath6kl.patch ...                                                                  [ ok ]
cp: cannot stat 
'/var/lib/layman/pentoo/sys-kernel/compat-drivers/files/compat-drivers-3.8-r1-dr
iver-select': No such file or directory
 * ERROR: sys-kernel/compat-drivers-3.8-r1 failed (prepare phase):
 *   Replacing driver-select failed

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

- Gentoo with latest stable tree
- sys-kernel/compat-drivers-3.8-r1 from pentoo overlay

Please provide any additional information below.

Relevant config file lines:
 /etc/portage/package.use
    sys-kernel/compat-drivers -build-all-modules compat_drivers_ethernet_alx
 /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
    sys-kernel/compat-drivers **

- Following these steps seemed to fix the problem:

1. cd $(dirname $(equery which compat-drivers))
2. cd files
3. ln -s compat-drivers-3.8{,-r1}-driver-select
4. cd ..
5. ebuild compat-drivers-3.8-r1.ebuild manifest
6. emerge compat-drivers

Original issue reported on code.google.com by holol...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2013 at 8:56

• Merged into: #91

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sadly our compat-drivers is pretty out of date since we lost our maintainer.

it is unlikely I'll be fixing this soon as it's not even called 
"compat-drivers" anymore you can imagine a lot has changed.

for now, I'd advise you to use the most recent stable kernel which is much more 
recent than these old drivers.

Original comment by sidhayn on 21 Aug 2013 at 9:07

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Is any reason to use these outdated drivers?

I'm marking this bug as a dup of issue #91 but it should be the "invalid" 
status really

Original comment by blshkv on 21 Aug 2013 at 9:16

• Changed state: Duplicate

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it isn't outdated if you are using an older kernel.  he is clearly using the 
overlay and not our kernel (or gentoo's latest stable for that matter).  But 
yes, compat-drivers needs an overhaul, again, just like when it changed from 
compat-wireless to compat-drivers, now it is "backports" and very different.  
Much work needs to be done.

Original comment by sidhayn on 22 Aug 2013 at 12:39

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I updated to the 3.10.9 kernel and I found that ALX support was added which was 
what I needed. I was simply trying to make aware these little bugs in the 
compat-drivers package.

Original comment by holol...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2013 at 1:27

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just because I have no interest in fixing this outdated issue doesn't mean your 
bug report wasn't appreciated.  please, keep them coming.

Original comment by sidhayn on 23 Aug 2013 at 2:01