From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] broke prefix installation using "eselect profile"
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:13:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921181303.GG30957@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANyH569iv-4ZfmYG1neypBo2NapAQhgabC-3tECVkrbLZPeZCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Martin,
On 21-09-2011 14:06:47 -0400, Martin Luessi wrote:
> I just successfully installed a gentoo prefix setup on CentOS (amd64).
> I was silly and used "eselect profile" after the instllation and this
> seems to have broken the instllation. I tried to fix it by having
> "$EPREFIX/etc/make.profile" point to
> "$EPREFIX/usr/portage/profiles/prefix/linux/amd64". However, now
> portage tries to install masked packages, e.g.,
>
> emerge -a portage
> ..
> [ebuild N *] sys-apps/sandbox-2.5 USE="(-multilib)"
> [ebuild U *] sys-apps/portage-9999 [2.2.01.19295] USE="-python2% -python3%"
>
> The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
> #required by sys-apps/portage-9999, required by portage (argument)
> >=sys-apps/sandbox-2.5 **
> #required by portage (argument)
> >=sys-apps/portage-9999 **
>
> On the other hand, if I set "EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" all
> versions of portage seem to be masked. I have not manually unmasked or
> masked any packages and have no idea why this is happening. Any tips
> on how to fix this are greatly appreciated.
I think you messed with your SYNC variable. There is no portage-9999 in
the Prefix tree, so I think you synced up a gx86 tree.
Make sure portageq envvar SYNC returns a prefix mirror,
e.g. rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 18:06 [gentoo-alt] broke prefix installation using "eselect profile" Martin Luessi
2011-09-21 18:13 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2011-09-21 18:32 ` Martin Luessi
2011-09-21 18:37 ` Fabian Groffen
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