[gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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How to remove a binary package?

I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix
a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for
my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from
the system.

My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at
the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no
metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them?

Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata?

++ kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix
> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for
> my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from
> the system.
> 
> My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at
> the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no
> metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them?

There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking
one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata.

> Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata?

What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in
$PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can
then unmerge in the usual way.

If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to
the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to
emerge it properly. 


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Neil Bothwick

Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix
> > a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for
> > my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from
> > the system.
> >
> > My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at
> > the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no
> > metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them?
>
> There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking
> one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata.
>
> > Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata?
>
> What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in
> $PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can
> then unmerge in the usual way.
>
> If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to
> the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to
> emerge it properly.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product.


Another killer .signature.  Is it optimistic?

Anyway, thanks.  This will do very nicely for me because I'll be using
packages
created by portage.  However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about
in that
last paragraph.  Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no?  Then
how
do I get a clean unmerge.  Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't think I
need it for this.

++ kevin




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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:56 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about
> in that
> last paragraph.  Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no?
> Then how
> do I get a clean unmerge.  Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't
> think I need it for this.

If you break your system to the extent that you cannot emerge anything,
such as accidentally unmerging Python, the way to get your system back is
to unpack the package. This copies the same files that an emerge would,
but skips the preinst/postinst stages of the merge and leaves the portage
database thinking the package isn't installed. So after unpacking the
archive and getting things working again, you should emerge the package
normally to keep portage straight.


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And all the Borg left was this copy of Windows...

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[gentoo-user] Raid and Gentoo

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi,

I've bought a computer, and it has the possibility of making a RAID. I
configured it through the BIOS setup.

I've booted up Gentoo live cd with "dodmraid" parameter, so the raid was
placed in /dev/maer/whatever.

After installing everything (stage3, stage1 failed for me here in ~amd64),
I got to the critical point: GRUB.

I've *NO IDEA* of how should I configure GRUB to detect my RAID. If you
can help me I'd be very happy !!

Because I wonder: How can I say to GRUB where the kernel is, if for
reading the "big hard disk" it needs to have a module (or not), just the
kernel loaded, but what grub does is load the kernel, so WHAT I HAVE TO DO
?


Thank you very much,
Rafael Fernandez Lopez.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Raid and Gentoo

[Barny M]

Rafael Fernández López wrote:

> I've *NO IDEA* of how should I configure GRUB to detect my RAID. If you
> can help me I'd be very happy !!

Hi Rafael,

hope this will help:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Special:Search?search=Raid&go=Go

If you are gonna using LVM, also http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml


	~ Barny


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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix
> > a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for
> > my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from
> > the system.
> >
> > My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at
> > the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no
> > metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them?
>
> There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking
> one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata.
>
> > Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata?
>
> What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in
> $PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can
> then unmerge in the usual way.
>
> If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to
> the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to
> emerge it properly.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product.
>
>
> Something about this is just not clicking with me.  I restored my backup
to
an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the
packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and was feeling good.  But...

I got out of chroot, copied these to $PKGDIR (/usr/portage/packages) like
the other packages there, and tried to emerge.  No joy.  Examples of
what I tried:

> treat Backups # emerge -v --usepkgonly =glib-1.2.10-r5
> Calculating dependencies
> !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "=glib-1.2.10-r5"
> !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
>
> treat Backups #


and

> treat dev-libs # emerge -v --usepkgonly ./glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
> emerging by path implies --oneshot... adding --oneshot to options.
>
> *** emerging by path is broken and may not always work!!!
>
> Calculating dependencies
> *** You need to adjust PKGDIR to emerge this package.
>
> treat dev-libs #
>


But this one, for instance, was
/usr/portage/packages/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
and PKGDIR is
/usr/portage/packages
so what am I doing wrong now?

This is getting demoralizing.

++ kevin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Richard Fish]

On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something about this is just not clicking with me.  I restored my backup to
> an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the
> packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and was feeling good.  But...
>
> I got out of chroot, copied these to $PKGDIR (/usr/portage/packages) like
> the other packages there, and tried to emerge.  No joy.  Examples of
> what I tried:
> > treat Backups # emerge -v --usepkgonly =glib-1.2.10-r5
> > Calculating dependencies
> > !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "=glib-1.2.10-r5"
> > !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.

Did you copy the entire PKGDIR heirarchy?  It normally looks something like:

$PKGDIR/All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
...
$PKGDIR/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2 -> ../All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2

If you just copied the 'All' directory, without the symlinks, this
could account for the behavior you are seeing.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Something about this is just not clicking with me.  I restored my backup
> to
> > an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of
> the
> > packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and was feeling good.  But...
> >
> > I got out of chroot, copied these to $PKGDIR (/usr/portage/packages)
> like
> > the other packages there, and tried to emerge.  No joy.  Examples of
> > what I tried:
> > > treat Backups # emerge -v --usepkgonly =glib-1.2.10-r5
> > > Calculating dependencies
> > > !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "=glib-1.2.10-r5"
> > > !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
>
> Did you copy the entire PKGDIR heirarchy?  It normally looks something
> like:
>
> $PKGDIR/All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
> ...
> $PKGDIR/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2 -> ../All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
>
> If you just copied the 'All' directory, without the symlinks, this
> could account for the behavior you are seeing.
>
> -Richard


Okay, that helped.  But not as much as I had hoped.

Now I get:

> treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies -
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/glibc".
> (dependency required by "dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5" [binary])
>
> treat dev-libs #

So it sees that it has the glib package, but is still unwilling to emerge it
because of something else I need to do.  But I don't know how to find
out what to do about this virtual.  In /var/cache/edb/virtuals, I have

> virtual/glibc sys-libs/glibc
>
and I have 2.3.6-r3 installed:

> sys-libs/glibc
>      Available versions:  [P]2.2.5-r10 [P]2.3.2-r12 2.3.3.20040420-r2~2.3.4.20040619-r2
> 2.3.4.20040808-r1 2.3.4.20041102-r1 *2.3.4.20041102-r2 ~2.3.4.20050125-r1
> 2.3.5 2.3.5-r1 2.3.5-r2 2.3.5-r3 *2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 2.3.6-r3~2.3.6-r4 ~2.4-r1 ~2.4-r2 ~2.4-r3
>      Installed:           2.3.6-r3
>      Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
>      Description:         GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> > treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies -
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/glibc".
> > (dependency required by "dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5" [binary])

As you obviously have glibc installed, try using the --nodeps option.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/14/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > > treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5
> > >
> > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > >
> > > Calculating dependencies -
> > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/glibc".
> > > (dependency required by "dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5" [binary])
>
> As you obviously have glibc installed, try using the --nodeps option.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

Good.  Now progress has been made, and the packages that depended on
glib are emerging.  One down, 6 to go.

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