From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MO8Rt-0002oy-4I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:02:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6728FE06C3; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158E7E06C3 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-70-109-54-11.clppva.fios.verizon.net [70.109.54.11]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n67B2qe6019306 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:02:54 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n67B2mjs024961 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:02:51 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.13.7/Submit) id n67B2mxX024960; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:02:48 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19027.11096.564302.247363@ccs.covici.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:02:48 -0400 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907070324l22ea4435y19b234d2277286ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890907061321t6212879ev9a2e9c7bcfbd23a4@mail.gmail.com> <7bef1f890907062054l67145293x43246f1648e48992@mail.gmail.com> <4A52ED17.4020609@darkmetatron.de> <7bef1f890907070008q403893afh5f3e76356a03e1db@mail.gmail.com> <20090707111545.0da6bd04@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <7bef1f890907070324l22ea4435y19b234d2277286ce@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under Emacs 23.0.95.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 3413fb0e-c247-4731-89f1-bca8bfbe683c X-Archives-Hash: 921e63974bb1025eac5df0c5fb81e18c on Tuesday 07/07/2009 Alan E. Davis(lngndvs@gmail.com) wrote > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software > > installed in the chroot. > > > > However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in > > which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you > > with a binary package of ncurses, which you can unpack into your root > > directory. > > > > This is exactly what happened. I used the systemrescuecd, chrooted, > and, lo and behold, the same error message was coming up. What I > might be able to do is symlink to libncursesw ? Don't know whether > it's even on the system. > > On the other hand, with a binary ncurses, I could see that might work. > Is there a binary repo? (Back to sabayon?). I suppose I need to > know the exact version. Does it matter which use flags it was > compiled with? I wonder if you say -C and -P would it still use ncurses since you are turning off color and progress indications? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com