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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkgmerge rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz error
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:53:35
Message-Id: 3ADC524B.57FB08E3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkgmerge rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz error by Daniel Robbins
1 Daniel Robbins wrote:
2 >
3 > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:42:18PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 > > Tim van der Hulst wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > installed gentoo and downloaded the rsync file
7 > > > error that followed is below:
8 > > >
9 > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
10 > > > File "/usr/sbin/pkgmerge", line54, in?
11 > > > myvirtuals=portage.getvirtual(portage.root)
12 > > > AttributeError: getvirtual
13 > > >
14 > > > any ideas much appreciated :)
15 > >
16 > > Hi Tim,
17 > >
18 > > What portage version are you running 1.5 or 1.4 ?
19 > >
20 > > bye achim
21 >
22 > He's not using 1.5, I'm sure of that. Achim, right now we're having
23 > a problem where the old pkgmerge is broken, but the new pkgmerge is
24 > incompatible with our 1.0_rc4_pre2 packages. Do you think we could
25 > release the "build.tbz2" (along with some documentation that I can write
26 > on how to do the install) so that people can get a recent version of
27 > Gentoo Linux installed? I hate to see people running into this
28 > problem over and over again (due to 1.0_rc4_pre2 and its bugs).
29 >
30
31 You mean as a source-cd ? We must use the old bootimage system, because
32 the new one
33 is still in a very alpha state.
34 The easiest whould be using our old bootimage and only replacing
35 sys.tbz2 and the packages (only the reworked ones).
36
37 achim~
38
39 > Best Regards,
40 >
41 > --
42 > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
43 > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
44 > Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
45 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] pkgmerge rsync-2.4.6.tar.gz error Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>