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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:52:43AM -0500, Jason wrote: |
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> Just recently I re partitioned my drive and (willingly) reinstalled Gentoo |
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> Linux. The bootstrap went well and the rsync went well, however, when I went |
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> to emerge the system (pretend at first), it could not find the ebuild file |
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> for texinfo. I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem. |
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This is a known problem that I mistakenly created. It should have been fixed |
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1-2 days ago. When did you try an emerge system? |
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> Also.. In the base system packages, is it possible to exclude certain |
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> packages that I do not use such as gpm, isapnptools, efs2progs, lilo or grub |
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> without causing any dependancy issues? If so...I would love some info on |
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> what file to edit so that "emerge system" will not install these files. |
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Do this: |
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cd /etc |
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rm make.profile |
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cp -r /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0_rc6 make.profile |
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cd make.profile |
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vim packages |
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(remove e2fsprogs (!), isapnptools) |
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then do an emerge system |
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You'll now have your own private system profile that will not get automatically |
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updated when /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0_rc6 gets updated, so you should |
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periodically check for fixes/updates. |
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> Thank you very much...and keep up the great work with this excellent project! |
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You're welcome, and sorry that your emerge system didn't go smoothly for you. |
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Please let me know if you have any additional problems. I want to make sure |
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that this texinfo problem no longer exists. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |