[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Massimiliano Ziccardi]

Hi all (sorry to bother you again!!)

I'm still in the middle of the process of updating to KDE4....

Now the update blocks with and svn error:

 *  The die message:
 *   subversion: can't fetch to
/usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/eselect-python/trunk from
https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/python/projects/eselect-python/trunk.

I've configured the proxy setting both http_proxy and https_proxy.

Do I have to configure something else?

Usually emerge has always worked, so I thing it's an SVN problem,
however, through the browser, I successfully connect to the site...


Any idea?

Thanks a lot,
Massimiliano

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 11:22:31 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> Hi all (sorry to bother you again!!)
> 
> I'm still in the middle of the process of updating to KDE4....
> 
> Now the update blocks with and svn error:
> 
>  *  The die message:
>  *   subversion: can't fetch to
> /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/eselect-python/trunk from
> https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/python/projects/eselect-python/trunk.
> 
> I've configured the proxy setting both http_proxy and https_proxy.
> 
> Do I have to configure something else?
> 
> Usually emerge has always worked, so I thing it's an SVN problem,
> however, through the browser, I successfully connect to the site...

From your log of yesterday:


[nomerge      ] kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.3.1  USE="handbook python (-aqua) 
-debug -google-gadgets (-kdeprefix) -rss -xinerama" 
[ebuild  N    ]  dev-python/sip-4.8.2  USE="-debug -doc" 601 kB
[ebuild     U ]   app-admin/eselect-python-99999999 [20090606] 0 kB


Do you really really want the latest bleeding edge eselect-python from svn?

You will have an entry in package.keywords or maybe package.unmask causing 
this. Remove those entries.

Even better, put -python in USE and enable it only for those packages where 
you know you want it. Python-based plugins in KDE cause no end of build issues 
and are seldom needed.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Massimiliano Ziccardi]

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Thanks!

I removed it and now it works... however, I think autounmask added it (I
never did : I swear! :-) )

I thought however that 9999999 was a strange version number :-)
Thanks,
Massimiliano


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 11:22:31 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> > Hi all (sorry to bother you again!!)
> >
> > I'm still in the middle of the process of updating to KDE4....
> >
> > Now the update blocks with and svn error:
> >
> >  *  The die message:
> >  *   subversion: can't fetch to
> > /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/eselect-python/trunk from
> >
> https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/python/projects/eselect-python/trunk.
> >
> > I've configured the proxy setting both http_proxy and https_proxy.
> >
> > Do I have to configure something else?
> >
> > Usually emerge has always worked, so I thing it's an SVN problem,
> > however, through the browser, I successfully connect to the site...
>
> From your log of yesterday:
>
>
> [nomerge      ] kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.3.1  USE="handbook python
> (-aqua)
> -debug -google-gadgets (-kdeprefix) -rss -xinerama"
> [ebuild  N    ]  dev-python/sip-4.8.2  USE="-debug -doc" 601 kB
> [ebuild     U ]   app-admin/eselect-python-99999999 [20090606] 0 kB
>
>
> Do you really really want the latest bleeding edge eselect-python from svn?
>
> You will have an entry in package.keywords or maybe package.unmask causing
> this. Remove those entries.
>
> Even better, put -python in USE and enable it only for those packages where
> you know you want it. Python-based plugins in KDE cause no end of build
> issues
> and are seldom needed.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 12:02:39 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> I removed it and now it works... however, I think autounmask added it (I
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^

I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast.

vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-)

> never did : I swear! :-) )
> 
> I thought however that 9999999 was a strange version number :-)
> Thanks,
> Massimiliano

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 12:02:39 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
>   
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I removed it and now it works... however, I think autounmask added it (I
>>     
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast.
>
> vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-)
>
>   
>> never did : I swear! :-) )
>>
>> I thought however that 9999999 was a strange version number :-)
>> Thanks,
>> Massimiliano
>>     
>
>   

vi ?  LOL  I have used autounmask and so far it has not broke anything. 
I also like the way it separates what it adds from what was already
there.  It puts little separators in there so you can easily remove the
lines it added.  I use Kwrite to edit files, nano if I am between a rock
and a hard place. 

Each his own tho.  :-D

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:04:27 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast.
> >
> > vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-)

You're not supposed to trust it. It gives a starting point for ${EDITOR}
and eyeballs.

> vi ?  LOL  I have used autounmask and so far it has not broke anything. 
> I also like the way it separates what it adds from what was already
> there.  It puts little separators in there so you can easily remove the
> lines it added.

If /etc/portage/packages.{unmask,keywords} are directories, it puts its
entries in a separate file, which is even easier to work with.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A friend in need may turn out to be a nuisance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Massimiliano Ziccardi]

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Well..
as a gentoo newbie, I can say autounmask made my life much easier.

Of course the error has been mine: I should have used the 'pretend' switch
and look closer to the list...

However, I don't think I would have noticed much: don't blame me, but many
emerge aspects are still alien beasts to me :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:04:27 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>   
>>> I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast.
>>>
>>> vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-)
>>>       
>
> You're not supposed to trust it. It gives a starting point for ${EDITOR}
> and eyeballs.
>
>   
>> vi ?  LOL  I have used autounmask and so far it has not broke anything. 
>> I also like the way it separates what it adds from what was already
>> there.  It puts little separators in there so you can easily remove the
>> lines it added.
>>     
>
> If /etc/portage/packages.{unmask,keywords} are directories, it puts its
> entries in a separate file, which is even easier to work with.
>
>
>   

I really need to change over to the directory method.  That just sounds
soooo cool.  Autounmask creating a new file makes it even better.

Thanks for that tip.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:04:27 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast.
>>>>
>>>> vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-)
>>>>
>>
>> You're not supposed to trust it. It gives a starting point for ${EDITOR}
>> and eyeballs.
>>
>>
>>> vi ?  LOL  I have used autounmask and so far it has not broke anything.
>>> I also like the way it separates what it adds from what was already
>>> there.  It puts little separators in there so you can easily remove the
>>> lines it added.
>>>
>>
>> If /etc/portage/packages.{unmask,keywords} are directories, it puts its
>> entries in a separate file, which is even easier to work with.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I really need to change over to the directory method.  That just sounds
> soooo cool.  Autounmask creating a new file makes it even better.
>
> Thanks for that tip.

For things like the KDE overlay it's almost required to do it that way
if you want to keep your sanity. You can just make a symlink to the
unmask and keywords files in the overlay so it automagically is
updated when you re-sync it :)