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From: Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 Installation Question...
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:24:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E0D6F0.5040701@j-schmitz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550760.43103.qm@web65402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

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BRM schrieb:
> I took the dive on my laptop this weekend and installed Gentoo 2008.0. I started Friday night and used the stage3 and latest-portage.
> The initial install when okay, until I started emerging applications - specifically X windows/KDE/etc; and that is the point I am still working on.
>
> The problem seems to be that emerge/portage is not detecting dependencies correctly, or rather - a dependency says it is installed but the ebuilds for other packages that depend on it do not find the files it supposedly installed. For example, I have had to manually emerge nearly all the X protocol (e.g. xproto, xkbproto, etc.) packages.
>
> I've installed several other gentoo systems, but not with 2008.0 directly like this - my last two were installed under 2007.0 and upgraded to 2008.0 profiles.
> The only bug reports I come across seem to indicate broken e-builds, but that does seem to be the case as "emerge --search <program>" indicates it is installed when in fact it might not be which leads me to believe that the local portage database (?) is somehow broken or something...
>
> Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
> Is there anything I can to do get fixed?
> -- Preferably without re-installing from scratch, though I can if need be since I haven't gotten that far despite >48 hours of time put into it already.
>
> Nearly every time I run "emerge world -vuDN" it will go for a while and then break when the contents of a package that was supposedly installed are not found by a package depending on it.
>
> Any how...any tips would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Ben
>
>
>   
That sounds like a broken world file. try regenworld to fix this. After
that emerge -uvaDn world to fix all deps. If you didn't unemerge any
package (python gcc or so) you should get all dependencies that way. Run
revdep-rebuild will help some more afterwards.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 13:15 [gentoo-user] 2008.0 Installation Question BRM
2008-09-29 13:24 ` Justin [this message]
2008-09-29 13:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-09-29 13:30 ` Justin
2008-09-29 14:49   ` David Sveningsson
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2008-09-29 13:40 BRM
2008-09-29 15:30 BRM
2008-09-29 17:47 BRM

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