Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/
> > gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash,
> > and that works too. Then I leave the profile at the default vanilla
> > amd64 and emerge-webrsync. So far so good. Then when I try emerge
> > -uaDvN @world I get a circular dependency involving elt-patches and
> > xz-utils. No amount of unsetting of USE flags makes any difference. Nor
> > does --excluding one of them, because portage just refuses to do that.
> 
> Try omitting -D and -N to reduce the number of packages being rebuilt. If
> that doesn't help, post the output here.

I think I must have had a bad stage tarball. At any rate, that problem doesn't 
occur now. Instead I get various ruby packages failing because they can't find 
the gems directory, or some other problem.

There was once a news item about ruby-30, but I don't see it any more. At the 
time I added this:

# cat /etc/portage/package.use/ruby
dev-ruby/*              ruby_targets_ruby30
virtual/rubygems        ruby_targets_ruby30
virtual/ruby-ssl        ruby_targets_ruby30

That worked nicely, but not on a new system. I've tried changing the 20 to 27 
and I've tried removing the file, but neither helps. Eselecting ruby versions 
doesn't either.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.