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 1M4BXw-0001ob-LU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 10:18:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A07E03AF; Wed, 13 May 2009 10:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46564E03AF for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 10:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so721788ewy.34 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 03:18:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=WGxS4j8mtwyv4cQWta2YgfFCI/NDW9B/nhTjPEJ0Ofs=; b=FHV2Ayr8+5bokDZ7o33u/AV1a95Ybb8Lb4uXX4vdSxhL0sluLN0zNFULwMBxKyxyXp YFWw31tjAWVADXt4g8pabtGcaSDuG1vCf/+m6MM+Y9d4CL1eQqD8o/k9chDy8G2M1wAQ qlvXV1NHEbmyacsx9jhPdquI9jtx1wCUqKZ4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=c7RNqEox5IkZ1G+Xi3QU3+q/r27x2Ewsxu1z+8vC2EMN0iifOe/GuSIswG63kEXJwR x4kkncubruhlvELv1ZBkEMvjPcUqMBq5kssUM+9rEAYSFv28vIqBnwlPw7hN48bNDIDV HCJ0VBiUbH4AOiHvdb8yXfVnk5EWB4cW2UGaQ= Received: by 10.211.168.5 with SMTP id v5mr126960ebo.34.1242209922724; Wed, 13 May 2009 03:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm2262275eyf.18.2009.05.13.03.18.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 13 May 2009 03:18:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:17:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Alexey Luchko References: <1430318F-36A1-4095-B8DE-014A1915AC67@gmail.com> <4A0A9AFC.50203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0A9AFC.50203@gmail.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905131217.11212.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7c93ff20-2dd0-4202-a2c2-5efc69300e84 X-Archives-Hash: 21bdac532a767024bdb1c8ef8c08969b On Wednesday 13 May 2009 12:03:40 Alexey Luchko wrote: > Alexey Luchko wrote: > > colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] > > [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE="-examples% > > -plugins%" > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] > > [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [1.2.17] > > [ebuild N ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE="-nocxx" > > [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 > > [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 [1.0.7] USE="-vim-syntax%" > > [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 [0.1.15] > > [blocks B ] > app-shells/bash-3.2_p39) > > colinux ~ # > > Hi! > > Thank every one for your help. [snip long sad story of portage blockers] > Here I am now ;) > Any advice is welcome! Why are you doing this? Is it to learn how to cope with such things? If not, you are really wasting time that you will never get back. The last 18 months has seen much activity in the tree, lot's of it from large packages being split into smaller ones, and blockers installed. You've already come across mktemp/coreutils and e2fsprogs. You still have to deal with bash/python then that delicious recent cock-up with wget, expat and you have to decide if you want com_err or not. And plenty more. This all happened so long ago I forget the details (lucky for you it's all in the mail archives!). Trust me, if this is not a learning exercise, just unmount your data volumes and reinstall the machine. The pain is not worth it. Really. Especially if glibc decides it doesn't like your headers, then you really are up the creek if you didn't quickpkg critical apps in the system set first :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com