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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:43 +0000, Nelson Batalha wrote: |
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> >Like, where does emerge look for existing packages? |
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> Sorry about that. Asked a friend, and it's simply /var/db, posted a bug to |
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> include that info on the man page. |
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> The reason it doesn't find the packages is because, at the moment when |
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> unmerge.sh starts, /var/db is empty! Though the livecd-stage1 has a /var/db, |
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> so this target deletes it just on my case? (researching) |
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Ahhh... which livecd/type are you using? |
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We move /var/db to /usr/livecd in certain circumstances. Try adding |
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this: |
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ln -sf /usr/livecd/db /var |
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This should symlink the VDB back into /var where portage expects it. |
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Sorry, I'd forgotten that we don't remove stuff in unmerge on the LiveCD |
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builds, only on the minimal builds, which doesn't move VDB (since we |
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delete it later). |
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In fact, you can do the symlinking, then rm -rf /usr/livecd/db in your |
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build if you're not using the Installer. You only need a VDB on a CD if |
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you're using the Installer itself, or you plan on allowing people to |
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emerge stuff directly on the CD via Unionfs or tmpfs (or both). |
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