Re: [gentoo-alpha] Problems running bootstrap.sh

[Aron Griffis]

Rikard Johnels wrote:	[Mon Jul 26 2004, 12:36:29AM EDT]
> Using the stage1 setup on a AS255. (fourth setup)
> But i cant get it to work.
> Tried using Reiserfs, but that fails. Each time i use reiserfs the partition
> table blows. no matter how many blocks i move the start..

You aren't accidentally creating the filesystem on the disc instead of
the partition, are you?  I use reiser all the time on alpha with no
problems.  I've tried both alpha-sources and vanilla-sources-2.4.26.

> Reverted to ext3 and at least i can get the portage tree wo problems.
> Then something strange happens:
>
> #> emerge sync
> *lots of lines cut*
> >>> Updating Portage cache...
>
> Gentoo / # nano /etc/make.conf
> Gentoo / # export USE="-java"
> Gentoo / # cd /usr/portage/
> Gentoo portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh
>
> Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/
> Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL
> Starting Bootstrap of base system ...
>
> Using >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.3
> Using >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.36
> Using >=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.4
> Using >=sys-devel/gcc-3.2
> Using sys-devel/gettext
> Using >=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r7
> Using >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r5
> Using sys-libs/zlib
> Using >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020112a
>
> Configuring environment...
> Calculating dependencies
>
> emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy
> ">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.36".
>
>
> I used to be able to run the bootstrap.
> But somehow it fails on me.

cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
grep ^KEY *.ebuild

What do you see?

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer