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True, this email is the most detail I have found about "virtual" stuff |
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yet, I cannot find any doco's on this which is why the emails. |
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It appears to be tied up with the opengl mess - that is most of the |
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programs are complaining of opengl, glu or glut (by the way this is a 2 |
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month old install that "suddenly" started complaing of this - so whats |
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changed? I see that there are some odd comments about Mesa not playing |
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nicely in the files with nvidia, but I dont have an nvidia card so I'll |
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unmask and install Mesa and hope that works. In the meantime, what |
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about xmms, xscreensaver and a number of others which suddenly will not |
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build becuase something virtual has poppped up - they have not always |
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been this way! |
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I did a fresh install into a vmware VM over the last couple of days and |
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cannot finish the install as that is now complaining of the same |
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problems. |
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Starting to look like something is screwy with the portage tree. |
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BillK |
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On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 08:47, Ed Heron wrote: |
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> Actually, that doc doesn't fully explain virtuals. It mentions them, then |
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> says it will explain them later, but does not. |
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> |
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> ----- Original Message ----- |
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> From: "Sean P. Kane" <spkane@××××××××××.com> |
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> To: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:12 PM |
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> Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] virtual problem |
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> |
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> Virtual/* means that it isn't an exact package and you simply need |
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> something that gives you that service (and is who's ebuild is setup to |
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> claim to provide that service). |
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> i.e. there are a variety of system loggers like metalog, syslogd, |
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> syslogd-ng and they all provide virtual/logger, so that any one of them |
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> will suffice for some thing that depends on virtual/logger. Where-as if |
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> you depended on syslogd, the ebuild would fail for someone using |
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> metalog. |
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> I believe this is covered more here: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html |
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> |
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> Sean |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Bill Kenworthy [mailto:billk@×××××××××.au] |
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> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 16:28 |
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> To: gentoo-dev List |
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> Subject: [gentoo-dev] virtual problem |
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> |
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> I have not been able to do an "emerge --update world" for a couple of |
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> weeks now due to various vritual/?????????? packages. e.g., xmms |
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> depended on virtual/opengl. I unermerged it and ended up emergeing a |
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> number of other packages in the process of getting it back. Now it is |
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> done one of those packages, qt, complains of missing virtual/glu when I |
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> try and emerge world. |
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> Can someone explain this whole virtual thing and how to fix, or give a |
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> reference in the docs? |
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> BillK |
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> * I have noted a couple of other emails along these lines, but havent |
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> seen any fixes yet. |
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