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On Monday 05 February 2007 14:38:22 YoYo Siska wrote: |
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> A word of advice: if you are trying to reinstall an older system, don't |
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> copy over all the use flags at the beginning and then try to build the |
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> whole system at once. It creates a lot of problems (cyclic dependencies, |
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> compile problems). It used to work some time ago, but when I tried to |
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> reinstall my old computer from scratch for my parents a month ago, I |
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> just had to take it nice and slow.... (to gentoo-devs: sorry, I had no |
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> time to go through it and post bugs...) |
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> Instead emerge the basic system first with the standard use flags, then |
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> add new and recompile |
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I'm not really sure those are bugs anyway. Portage 2.1.1 (stable) doesn't |
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handle cyclic deps too well. Portage 2.1.2 (~arch) does, however, detect |
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cyclic deps. It still doesn't circumvent them but it does make it a lot |
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easier to find out how to work around it (usually by temporarily disabling a |
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use flag). Portage 2.1.2 will go stable soon.. |
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Bo Andresen |