[gentoo-dev] is portage not so fresh?

[gentoo-dev] is portage not so fresh?

[Sean Jensen_Grey]

I am *REALLY* new to gentoo linux but I just installed (from the rc4 pre iso
image), and grabbed the portage tree with rsync then went into


cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
ebuild portage-x.y.z.ebuild merge

and now I can't grab packages off of the cd...It looks like it wants all the
packages in a two level heirarchy. <category_name>/<package_name>

mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/packages/All


All > pkgmerge ncftp-3.0.2.tbz2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pkgmerge", line 68, in ?
    mykey=mytbz2.getelements("CATEGORY")[0]+"/"+mypkg[:-5]
IndexError: list index out of range

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And I tried backing out the new version with a portage-unmerge since,
portage-maintain said I had two versions on my system. Don't do this. I think my
portage system is fubar'd up now.

All these bash scripts kinda smell like install shield for unix.  I had to go to
counseling about my experience with bash.

I like the use of python, I just wish it was more pervasive..

What is the best technique to get a working portage back on my system?

Can I make ebuild scripts in python instead of bash?

Thanks, Sean.

Re: [gentoo-dev] is portage not so fresh?

[drobbins]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:00:28PM -0800, Sean Jensen_Grey wrote:
> I am *REALLY* new to gentoo linux but I just installed (from the rc4 pre iso
> image), and grabbed the portage tree with rsync then went into
> 
> 
> cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
> ebuild portage-x.y.z.ebuild merge
> 
> and now I can't grab packages off of the cd...It looks like it wants all the
> packages in a two level heirarchy. <category_name>/<package_name>

I'm guessing that this is because you merged a 1.5_pre version of Portage that
is for testers only and uses a second-generation .tbz2 package format. You'll
need to use ebuild for now, or try to get back your older version of Portage.

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[gentoo-dev] is portage not so fresh?

[Sean Jensen_Grey]

Consider me a tester. I like the whole gestalt of gentoo. Your distro is doing
a lot of things right. I want to help. And I want to use.

I want a light fast distro that I can use for server deployment without a lot of
hassles. And getoo looks like it is going there.

I tried to use ebuild to get a portage back on my system.

portage > ebuild portage-1.4-r15.ebuild merge
/usr/bin/ebuild: import-settings: command not found
/usr/bin/ebuild: import-configsettings: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pkgname", line 3, in ?
    import portage
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 1757, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 301, in getsetting
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 388, in getconfig
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/make.defaults'
!!! packagename is not a valid package name. Exiting.

is there a tar.gz I can use get my system back into a KGS (known good state) ?

I don't really know the directory hierarchy that well.

Sean.