From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.140]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14pLPi-0004SF-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:40:22 -0600 Received: from homegrown3 ([24.5.73.98]) by femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010417023952.RHTA15258.femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com@homegrown3> for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:39:52 -0700 Message-ID: <001401c0c6e7$963ba450$0216a8c0@wgrd.wgsupport.com> From: "Dominic Leland" To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage newbie needs help -- Please ignore the other one Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Apr 16 20:41:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:39:12 -0700 X-Archives-Salt: fc5cd690-a679-4113-b798-fc951190b803 X-Archives-Hash: 3718cc5f9969328e9deaf5c63b941509 Sorry, I didn't realized my email program was sending html email. Didn't quite translate well. Here's the text version: Hi everyone, I've been using Gentoo, off and on, since rc3 (I believe). When rc4-pre2 came out, I wanted to go head-first into it. Unfortunately, I always mess up my system with portage. Back then, when I would update portage, my pkgmerge would be broken. With almost no software installed (and not enough energy to compile everything from source) I would reinstall and ignore portage. Back when I first tried this, I read a post here on gentoo-dev saying that the portage I was using was broken and would be fixed soon. I left Gentoo alone for a while. I wanted to wait for rc5 and give portage a little more time to develop. With all of the documentation improvements and a few portage updates, I decided to try it again. I still have a broken portage/pkgmerge, but I did get a little further last time. Just to compare, I am going to list the steps I took this time: 1.Install Gentoo according to the Installation guide. FYI, in case you want to know, here's how my partitions are set up: /dev/hda1 VFAT ~25GB Windows /dev/hda2 VFAT ~25GB Windows (data) /dev/hda3 reiserfs 150MB /boot /dev/hda4 25GB extended /dev/hda5 reiserfs 4GB / /dev/hda6 swap 250MB (I'm planning on following Daniel's article on LVM - I'm leaving a bunch of unallocated space after the swap) 2.Downloaded the latest (I think) rsync. 3.Rsync'ed the portage tree. 4.ebuild portage-x.y.z.ebuild merge -- This part suprisingly worked - it didn't last time. Even though portage seemed to merge fine, it would always fail whenever I would go into any other directory and try to do an "ebuild package-x.y.z.ebuild merge." I kept getting a "package already installed - unmerge first" error (even on things I knew weren't installed like Gnome-1.4). The document's next step, assuming ebuilding worked, was to unmerge the existing file, but since I had just started my /var/db/pkg tree, I wouldn't have entries for anything I was upgrading. Since the last time I tried this seemed to break my pkgmerge, I tried to merge some packages off of CDROM. Nope. I keep getting errors (something like "index out of range"). I'm really anxious to get my system up and running and upgradable. I like how the newer portage is recursive. Any help from the portage adepts is much appreciated. Thank you. Dominic Leland