[gentoo-user] portage weirdness

[gentoo-user] portage weirdness

[Rodrigo Lazo]

Hi everybody,

today I've updated to portage 2.1 and everything works fine. I'm setting a
chroot and this are the steps I've take:

1-Downloaded stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
2-Create a partition with ext3
3-tar xvjpf stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
4-mkdir usr/portage
5-mount my portage partition mount /dev/hda9 usr/portage
6-mount proc and dev
7-chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile
8-emerge system
9-stop it after update portage
10-emerge --metadata
11-emerge -pvK system

Now I'm getting some packages with the following output

[binary     U ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r1 [2.5.4a-r6] USE="nls% -static"
[binary     U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 [3.4.4-r1] USE="doc% fortran*
gtk* nls -bootstrap* -boundschecking -build -gcj -hardened -ip28
-ip32r10k% -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla"

note those % like nls% and ip32r10k%. Portage "paint" them in
yellow. In my main system this doesn't happen.

AFAIK, the step that takes you from stage2 to stage3 is emerge system.
Since I already have a system where to take the packages from, I try to
save some donwloading using stage2.

I copy my main system's /etc/make.conf to this chroot. 

Why am I getting that output? What does it means?

Best regards

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage weirdness

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Monday, 12 June 2006 5:35, Rodrigo Lazo wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> today I've updated to portage 2.1 and everything works fine. I'm setting a
> chroot and this are the steps I've take:
>
> 1-Downloaded stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
> 2-Create a partition with ext3
> 3-tar xvjpf stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
> 4-mkdir usr/portage
> 5-mount my portage partition mount /dev/hda9 usr/portage
> 6-mount proc and dev
> 7-chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile
> 8-emerge system
> 9-stop it after update portage
> 10-emerge --metadata
> 11-emerge -pvK system
>
> Now I'm getting some packages with the following output
>
> [binary     U ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r1 [2.5.4a-r6] USE="nls% -static"
> [binary     U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 [3.4.4-r1] USE="doc% fortran*
> gtk* nls -bootstrap* -boundschecking -build -gcj -hardened -ip28
> -ip32r10k% -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla"
>
> note those % like nls% and ip32r10k%. Portage "paint" them in
> yellow. In my main system this doesn't happen.
>
> AFAIK, the step that takes you from stage2 to stage3 is emerge system.
> Since I already have a system where to take the packages from, I try to
> save some donwloading using stage2.
>
> I copy my main system's /etc/make.conf to this chroot.
>
> Why am I getting that output? What does it means?
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)

It's a new feature of portage-2.1

(straight from the emerge man page)

[ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE=ipv6* -gtk -qt% 
(snip...)
The percent sign following qt indicates that the qt option has been added to 
the package since it was last installed.

-- 
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[gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Yann Garnier]

Dear gentooers,

I have 2 strange portage behavior since I updated portage a few days ago.

First, It seems portage cannot find server anymore to update the portage 
tree.
Portage freezes (in fact it doesn't do anything) and says: Checking 
server timestamp...
I can still update by using emerge-websync so this problem is not 
critical....yet!

The second issue I experience is that I cannot update my system because 
I have 2 ebuilds that block the entire update.
I've already seen this issue once and I found a solution by masking one 
of the blocking  ebuild so I tried this time but the update cannot be 
done anyway.
This problem is much more critical for me since I can't update my system 
anymore !
Here is the output of an " emerge -pvuDt world"

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies  ...\b\b... done!
[blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
[blocks B     ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1)
[ebuild     U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2 [0.2.1] 84 kB
[ebuild     U ] net-firewall/iptables-1.3.5-r1 [1.3.4] USE="ipv6 
-extensions -static" 187 kB
[ebuild     U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 [1.0.8] USE="ipv6 
-debug -gnome -java -mozdevelop -xinerama -xprint" 34,549 kB
[ebuild     UD] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8 [1.0.20060415] USE="X aac 
alsa encode gif gtk ipv6 jpeg mad mmx nls% opengl png sdl sse truetype 
v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xmms xv -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib -arts 
-bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga 
-directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -dvd -dvdread -esd -fbcon -ggi -i8x0 -jack 
-joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -matrox -mmxext -musepack 
-nas -nvidia -openal -oss -real -rtc -samba* -speex -sse2 -svga -tga 
-theora -unicode -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xvid* -xvmc" 7,975 kB
[ebuild  N    ] x11-plugins/enigmail-0.94.0-r4  35,560 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.20-r3  USE="X nls -caps 
-gpg2-experimental -ldap -smartcard" 1,767 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2.2  USE="X nls readline usb zlib 
-bzip2 -caps -curl -ecc -idea -ldap -smartcard -static" 2,963 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r4  USE="jpeg png tiff" 622 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    dev-libs/libusb-0.1.10a  USE="-debug -doc" 366 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/libassuan-0.6.10  251 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/pth-1.4.0  434 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/libksba-0.9.14  480 kB
[ebuild     U ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.4 [1.0.8] 
USE="crypt% ipv6 -debug -gnome -ldap -xinerama -xprint" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  dev-libs/nss-3.11-r1  4,885 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/nspr-4.6.1-r2  USE="ipv6" 1,301 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 [4.1-r8] USE="pam -debug" 
0 kB
[ebuild     U ] net-fs/autofs-4.1.3-r7 [4.1.3-r6] USE="-ldap" 0 kB
[nomerge      ] net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1  USE="ipv6 kerberos pam tcpd 
-X509 -chroot -hpn -ldap -libedit -sftplogging -skey -smartcard -static"
[ebuild     U ]  sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2 [4.0.14-r1] USE="nls pam 
-nousuid -skey" 1,264 kB
[nomerge      ] gnustep-apps/textedit-0.95_pre20060324  USE="-debug 
-profile -verbose"
[nomerge      ]  gnustep-base/gnustep-env-0.1.6-r1  USE="-debug -profile 
-verbose"
[ebuild     UD]   gnustep-base/gnustep-make-1.10.0-r2 [1.12.0-r1] 
USE="-debug -layout-from-conf-file -layout-osx-like -non-flattened 
-profile -verbose" 0 kB
[nomerge      ]   gnustep-base/gnustep-back-art-0.10.3  USE="doc opengl 
xim -debug -profile -verbose"
[ebuild     U ]    media-fonts/dejavu-2.6 [2.0] USE="X" 2,835 kB
[nomerge      ]   gnustep-base/gnustep-gui-0.10.3  USE="cups gif gsnd 
jpeg png -debug -profile -verbose"
[ebuild     U ]    gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.12.0 [1.10.3-r1] 
USE="-debug -gcc-libffi -libffi% -profile -verbose" 2,035 kB
[nomerge      ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.24  USE="jpeg kerberos krb4 nls 
opengl pam -gnome -insecure-savers -new-login -offensive -xinerama"
[ebuild     U ]  media-libs/netpbm-10.34 [10.30-r1] USE="jpeg png tiff 
zlib -svga" 2,679 kB
[ebuild  N    ] x11-terms/xterm-215  USE="truetype -Xaw3d -toolbar 
-unicode" 765 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1  21 kB
[nomerge      ]   media-libs/jasper-1.701.0  USE="jpeg opengl"
[ebuild     U ]    x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 [6.8.2-r7] 
USE="bitmap-fonts ipv6 mmx nls opengl pam sse truetype-fonts type1-fonts 
xv -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server 
-insecure-drivers -minimal -nocxx -sdk -static -xprint" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ]    media-libs/jpeg-6b-r7 [6b-r5] 21 kB
[nomerge      ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.11  USE="nls"
[nomerge      ]  media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11  USE="-doc"
[ebuild  NS   ]   sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r9  USE="-build -doc 
-symlink" 222 kB
[ebuild     U ]    sys-fs/udev-087-r1 [087] 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.33 [2.31] USE="nls" 1,749 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.04 [1.03-r1] 5 kB
[nomerge      ] perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56  USE="-minimal"
[nomerge      ]    dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7i  USE="zlib -bindist -emacs 
-test"
[nomerge      ]     sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r1  USE="nls -static"
[nomerge      ]      sys-devel/gettext-0.14.4  USE="nls -doc -emacs"
[ebuild     U ]       sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4 [2.3.6-r3] USE="nls -build 
-erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -nptl -nptlonly 
-profile" 861 kB
[nomerge      ] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4  USE="nls -build -nptl"
[nomerge      ]    sys-libs/readline-5.1_p4 
[nomerge      ]     app-shells/bash-3.1_p16  USE="nls -afs -bashlogger 
-build"
[ebuild     U ]      sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2 [5.4-r6] USE="gpm 
-bootstrap -build -debug -doc -minimal -nocxx -unicode" 2,259 kB

Total size of downloads: 106,152 kB
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
And here is the output of an "emerge --info"


Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 
2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 Celeron (Coppermine)
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times 
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats 
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' 
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo"
USE="X acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds 
emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 
imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos krb4 krb5 libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx 
mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls objc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia 
pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl 
session spell spl sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts 
usb vorbis x86 xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, 
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Can someone tell me what I'm missing ???

In advance thanks.

Yann Garnier

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

Yann Garnier wrote:
> Dear gentooers
...snip...
> Calculating world dependencies  ...\b\b... done!
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking
> sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1)


Unmerge pam-login and utempter and reemerge shadow

-Kristian Poul Herkild
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Teresa and Dale]

Yann Garnier wrote:

> Dear gentooers,
>
> I have 2 strange portage behavior since I updated portage a few days ago.
>
> First, It seems portage cannot find server anymore to update the
> portage tree.
> Portage freezes (in fact it doesn't do anything) and says: Checking
> server timestamp...
> I can still update by using emerge-websync so this problem is not
> critical....yet!


No clue there.

>
> The second issue I experience is that I cannot update my system
> because I have 2 ebuilds that block the entire update.
> I've already seen this issue once and I found a solution by masking
> one of the blocking  ebuild so I tried this time but the update cannot
> be done anyway.
> This problem is much more critical for me since I can't update my
> system anymore !
> Here is the output of an " emerge -pvuDt world"
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ...\b\b... done!
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking
> sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking
> sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1)


> <snip>


> Can someone tell me what I'm missing ???
>
> In advance thanks.
>
> Yann Garnier
>

Unmerge pam-login because shadow does that now.  emerge shadow
IMMEDIATELY after you unmerge though or you can't get back in.  This is
something that everyone has been through I guess.  I did too.

I guess you need to unmerge libutemper too.  I seem to recall doing
that.  May better wait to make sure.

Hope that helps.

Dale
:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Jürgen Pierau]

Yann Garnier wrote:

> The second issue I experience is that I cannot update my system 
> because I have 2 ebuilds that block the entire update.
> I've already seen this issue once and I found a solution by masking 
> one of the blocking  ebuild so I tried this time but the update cannot 
> be done anyway.
> This problem is much more critical for me since I can't update my 
> system anymore !
> Here is the output of an " emerge -pvuDt world"
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ...\b\b... done!
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking 
> sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking 
> sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1)

Hello Yann,

you should:

1. unmask the packages you masked
2. emerge --unmerge pam-login
3. emerge --oneshot shadow
4. emerge --unmerge utempter
5. emerge -avDu world

IMPORTANT: Do NOT log out before step 3. If you logout after unmerging 
pam-login you will NOT be able to login again until you emerge shadow.

That should fix the blocking problem. pam-login has now been merged into 
shadow, so it is no longer needed. utempter..no idea what happened but 
it seems to have changed it's name.

As for the rsync issue: Have you tried using a different rsync server? 
Maybe you should use one of the generic ones like

SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"


Hope this helps,
JP
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:22, Jürgen Pierau wrote:
> 1. unmask the packages you masked
> 2. emerge --unmerge pam-login
> 3. emerge --oneshot shadow
> 4. emerge --unmerge utempter
> 5. emerge -avDu world
>
> IMPORTANT: Do NOT log out before step 3. If you logout after unmerging
> pam-login you will NOT be able to login again until you emerge shadow.

Of course he should make sure to run etc-update, dispatch-conf or cfg-update 
before logging out too..

-- 
Bo Andresen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Yann Garnier]

Kristian, Dale, Jurgen, Bo, the list,

Thanks to all of you.

You were all right because my laptop is updating at the moment !!!

Thanks very much.

Best regards

Yann Garnier
Le 25 juin 06 à 22:38, Bo Ørsted Andresen a écrit :

> On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:22, Jürgen Pierau wrote:
>> 1. unmask the packages you masked
>> 2. emerge --unmerge pam-login
>> 3. emerge --oneshot shadow
>> 4. emerge --unmerge utempter
>> 5. emerge -avDu world
>>
>> IMPORTANT: Do NOT log out before step 3. If you logout after  
>> unmerging
>> pam-login you will NOT be able to login again until you emerge  
>> shadow.
>
> Of course he should make sure to run etc-update, dispatch-conf or  
> cfg-update
> before logging out too..
>
> -- 
> Bo Andresen


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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:12:23PM -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote

> Unmerge pam-login because shadow does that now.  emerge shadow
> IMMEDIATELY after you unmerge though or you can't get back in.  This is
> something that everyone has been through I guess.  I did too.

  I did that quite some time ago... back when I dumped PAM entirely<g>.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Teresa and Dale]

Walter Dnes wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:12:23PM -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote
>
>  
>
>>Unmerge pam-login because shadow does that now.  emerge shadow
>>IMMEDIATELY after you unmerge though or you can't get back in.  This is
>>something that everyone has been through I guess.  I did too.
>>    
>>
>
>  I did that quite some time ago... back when I dumped PAM entirely<g>.
>
>  
>

How's that work?  What do you use for login and such?  Is it more secure
or just different?

Thanks

Dale
:-)  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Teresa and Dale]

Yann Garnier wrote:

> Kristian, Dale, Jurgen, Bo, the list,
>
> Thanks to all of you.
>
> You were all right because my laptop is updating at the moment !!!
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Best regards
>
> Yann Garnier
> Le 25 juin 06 à 22:38, Bo Ørsted Andresen a écrit :
>
>> On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:22, Jürgen Pierau wrote:
>>
>>> 1. unmask the packages you masked
>>> 2. emerge --unmerge pam-login
>>> 3. emerge --oneshot shadow
>>> 4. emerge --unmerge utempter
>>> 5. emerge -avDu world
>>>
>>> IMPORTANT: Do NOT log out before step 3. If you logout after  unmerging
>>> pam-login you will NOT be able to login again until you emerge  shadow.
>>
>>
>> Of course he should make sure to run etc-update, dispatch-conf or 
>> cfg-update
>> before logging out too..
>>
>> -- 
>> Bo Andresen
>
>
>

Your welcome.  Glad to be of help, finally.  :D

Dale
:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:21:10PM -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> >  I did that quite some time ago... back when I dumped PAM entirely<g>.
> 
> How's that work?  What do you use for login and such?

  Just like everybody else is doing now, I unmerged pam-login and
emerged shadow.  shadow has always been able to handle logins on its
own.  I also set "-pam" in USE, and emerged deep and newuse to rebuild
all the apps that had built with linkages to pam libs.  For good
measure, I manually masked out pam libs back then.

> Is it more secure or just different?

  Running without pam is arguably slightly less secure... if you're
running a server that has multiple users logging in to the shell.  For a
home user like me who is the only person logging on to their machine,
pam is major overkill.  I personally feel that pam should be an option
in the same way as NSA SELinux.  It's more secure, but it's also more
work.

  And, yes, running without pam is different.  I had used linux for 4
years (Redhat, Debian, and CRUX) before switching to Gentoo, and had
never used pam.  I ran into a lot of situations with services... "You
set up the access permissions in *WHAT* file?", at times bordering on
the Firesign Theatre album title "Everything You Know Is Wrong".

  I was used to running without pam, and running with pam was an extra
learning curve, on top of the Gentoo learning curve.  If you're
comfortable with pam, by all means stay with it.  You'd probably have to
re-learn how to configure your services to dump pam, just like I had to
re-learn how to configure my services to use pam.  Whatever you're
comfortable with.

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