[gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Grant Goodyear <grant@bernacchi.chem.uh.edu>]

>Ok...here is my output.  I suspect it may be because of the virtuals
>error.  I will continue investigating.
>
>##########################
>flash /root >
>flash /root > export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages
>flash /root > emerge /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
>>>> /etc/make.profile/virtuals does not exist.  Continuing anyway...
>Calculating dependencies.
>!!! Error: couldn't find match for >=gnome-base/gnome-applets-1.4.0.1
>
>flash /root >

You should have /etc/make.profile be a symbolic link to
/usr/portage/profiles/default.  That should take care of the 
/etc/make.profile/virtuals error.

Also, you need to do 
  emerge --usepkg /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
so that emerge knows to get dependencies from the binaries in PKGDIR.

I hope that helps,
Grant
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