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From: cal <cal@mail.meme.technology>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging world on new machine
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:51:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0d1552e-2882-b398-425f-b522ad673395@mail.meme.technology> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X+FM+GoPB9DaTjD3@waltdnes.org>

On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
 >    I'm trying to update world on a new install.  I can emerge the
 > occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install
 > manual.  But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose.
 > Appended output from...
 >
 > emerge -p --changed-use -deep --update @world > /dev/shm/log.txt 2>&1
 >
 >    I've bzipped the output for attachment... yes it's *THAT* bad.
 >

You seem to be missing a dash on --deep, which has the unfortunate
consequence of being parsed as -d -e -e -p instead.  -d enables debug
mode (hence the ludicrously long output), and -e is short for
--emptytree which is almost certainly not what you wanted to do here.

Try --deep instead.

Cal


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-22  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-22  1:33 [gentoo-user] Problems emerging world on new machine Walter Dnes
2020-12-22  1:51 ` cal [this message]
2020-12-22  4:14   ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-12-22  7:33     ` Neil Bothwick

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