On 18-10-2009 07:09:10 -0700, velociraptor wrote:
> I'm trying to bootstrap on Solaris 10 x86.  I successfully got through
> the one-shots, but when trying to do the emerge -u system, I ran into
> two problems.
> 
> 1) useradd in the sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 fails:
[snip]
> I worked around this by running "useradd" manually and running the
> emerge again.  I later ran into this same issue with openssh and
> worked around it the same way.  It's bug ID#:
> <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271081>

This requires a new bootstrap snapshot to fix it in the bootstrap, I'll
set yesterday's one life now.

> The second issue seems out of my league.  I found a bug dated 9/26:
> <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286494>  Anyone else seeing
> this?  I voted it up and added my info.

I guess I better mask gcc-4.4.1 (and I'm affraid 4.4.2 too)

> I masked gcc-4.4.1 and was able to manually emerge 4.2.4 (since it
> worked in the bootstrap).  'emerge -u system' completed. After
> changing my USE, CFLAGS, etc., 'emerge -e system' completed
> successfully as well (all as root, too).
> 
> I appreciate everyone's hard work on alt prefix.  Blastwave has been
> having a lot of issues of late, and both it and Sunfreeware are far
> behind the curve with most software.  For a home system, prefix seems
> like a good alternative to trying to hand build everything.

Thanks!  We do have limited manpower though, so we can use all hands
that can produce patches and fixes for things that (unfortunately) are
broken.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level