Re: [gentoo-dev] bootstrap.sh and /var/lib/portage/world

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 07:34 +0000, mathias wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I finished this night succefully compilation of bootstrap.sh with stage
> 1 2005.0.
> The problem is my /var/lib/portage/world contain only 4 packages, glibc,
> linux-headers, nano and gettext but no gcc ... I've read something for
> several months about this problem on bugs.gentoo.org or on forums, I
> don't remember exactly, but the question is why bootstrap.sh don't print
> all installed packages in world file since the problem is know for
> several months ?

The world file will only show packages that are implicitly called by
emerge.  It does not list dependencies.  It does this for a very good
reason, as dependencies can change over time and it keeps you from
having tons of orphaned packages.

> I've meet a second problem, attr package for compiling search crtn.o in
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../ but only
> /usr/lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu exist ... I made symbolic link this morning,
> but why bootstrap (or anything else) don't make this link alone ?

Did you change CHOST in your make.conf?  If you did, it won't work.

> This is not my first installation of this fantastic system, but if it
> was, these problems should have make me to become crazy :/
>
> Perhaps there is lot of reasons to leave it in this state, but I don't
> understand this reasons :)
>
> Thanks a lot for your responses, have a nice day,

Well, this list is not a support list.  It is a development list.  You
would probably be better off asking these questions on gentoo-user, the
forums, or vai a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org instead.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux