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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problems emerging world on new machine
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 04:14:54
Message-Id: X+FyrHhb1fzh4hHh@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging world on new machine by cal
1 On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 05:51:56PM -0800, cal wrote
2 > On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the
4 > > occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install
5 > > manual. But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose.
6 > > Appended output from...
7 > >
8 > > emerge -p --changed-use -deep --update @world > /dev/shm/log.txt 2>&1
9 > >
10 > > I've bzipped the output for attachment... yes it's *THAT* bad.
11 > >
12 >
13 > You seem to be missing a dash on --deep, which has the unfortunate
14 > consequence of being parsed as -d -e -e -p instead. -d enables debug
15 > mode (hence the ludicrously long output), and -e is short for
16 > --emptytree which is almost certainly not what you wanted to do here.
17 >
18 > Try --deep instead.
19
20 Thank you very much, that was it. I feel stupid. Now it's only
21 re-emerging 13 ebuilds after I added "-ipv6" to USE.
22
23 --
24 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
25 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problems emerging world on new machine Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>