Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Steve Herber <herber@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2004.3 to 2005.0 i386_64-headers
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:04:41
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0512271656150.12990@thing.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] 2004.3 to 2005.0 i386_64-headers by Daiajo Tibdixious
1 I would fix your basic system, whatever causes you to say:
2
3 As usual, portage can't find the ebuilds required and I've been
4 downloading them manually.
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6 If portage can't download packages then you have a real problem. Others
7 have suggested you run an emerge sync. After that, try the --fetchonly
8 option for a simple package and get your downloads to work.
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10 I migrated from 2004.3 a few months ago using the automated upgrade and
11 I had no problems that I remember.
12
13 Good luck,
14
15
16 Steve Herber herber@×××××.com work: 206-221-7262
17 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399
18
19 On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
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21 > I've been upgrading profile 2004.3 to 2005.0 using
22 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/scripts/2004.3-
23 > 2005.0upgrade.sh
24 > As usual, portage can't find the ebuilds required and I've been downloading
25 > them manually.
26 > I'm up to gentoo-headers which is failing with:
27 > --
28 >>>> md5 src_uri ;-) linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
29 >>>> md5 src_uri ;-) linux-2.6.11-m68k-headers.patch.bz2
30 >>>> md5 src_uri ;-) gentoo-headers-2.6.11-5.tar.bz2
31 >
32 > * This version of linux-headers does not support i386_64.
33 > * Please merge the appropriate sources, in most cases
34 > * this will be i386_64-headers.
35 >
36 > !!! ERROR: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r2 failed.
37 > !!! Function setup_headers, Line 358, Exitcode 0
38 > !!! incorrect headers
39 > --
40 > I've tried googling for "I386_64_headers" and "version linux-headers support
41 > i386_64" without finding anything relevant.
42 > I got the ebuild, digest, etc from
43 > http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/gentoo-portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers
44 > which has worked well for other packages so far.
45 > According to
46 > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=linux-headers
47 > the latest stable amd64 version is 2.6.11-r2 so I'm confused as to why this
48 > would be unsuitable.
49 >
50 > I'm a complete newbie to Linux & Gentoo, although I've been able to solve a
51 > large number of problems by googling.
52 > --
53 > daiajo@×××××.com
54 > AMD Athlon 3000+ Gentoo 2004.3 Linux 2.6
55 --
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [solved] 2004.3 to 2005.0 i386_64-headers Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>