[gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system

[gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system

[Jason Castonguay]

Hi listers.

I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the first time and am now in
the process of going from stage 2 to stage 3.  I am trying to do

emerge --emptytree system

It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
to be installed).  The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.
This is understandable, but I thought emerge was supposed to be "aware" of
this sort of thing and install apps in the correct order.  I did a

emerge --pretend --emptytree system |less

and perl 5 is there, but further down the list of things to be installed
(after openssl).

What should I do -- install perl separately?  Any thoughts and/or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system

[Richard Fish]

Jason Castonguay wrote:

>Hi listers.
>
>I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the first time and am now in
>the process of going from stage 2 to stage 3.  I am trying to do
>
>emerge --emptytree system
>
>It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
>to be installed).  The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.
>This is understandable, but I thought emerge was supposed to be "aware" of
>this sort of thing and install apps in the correct order.  I did a
>  
>

There is probably a circular dependancy here caused by USE flags.

You can try:

USE="minimal -*" emerge --deep --oneshot perl

You should then be able to run the emerge --emptytree system command 
again.  It will start over from the beginning, but there is no way to 
avoid that right now...

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system

[Andreas Prieß]

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Richard Fish wrote:
>> emerge --emptytree system
>>
>> It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
>> to be installed).  The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.

> There is probably a circular dependancy here caused by USE flags.
> 
> You can try:
> 
> USE="minimal -*" emerge --deep --oneshot perl
> 
> You should then be able to run the emerge --emptytree system command
> again.  It will start over from the beginning, but there is no way to
> avoid that right now...

Here is what I did:

- When emerge stopped at openssl I continued with emerge --resume
--skipfirst.

- Perl was merged cleanly without openssl.
- Then sometime later emerge stopped because of the missing openssl, I
think it was wget that failed.
- At this point I merged openssl directly with ebuild merge.
- Then the emerge finished cleanly after anotheder emerge --resume.


I hope I did not miss anything, but I think this was the way it worked
for me.

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