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"Bruce A. Locke" wrote: |
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> From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@××××××××.de> |
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> > Did you upgrade portage or does this errors occure with the version |
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> installed? |
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> After unmerging the newest version of portage, reinstalling the version that |
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> came on the cd, and then remerging the latest version it appears to be |
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> working again. I had to create my own virtual/glibc entry in the db for |
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> some reason but things seem to work now. |
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Yes thats true you might also create virtual/kernel and virtual/alsa |
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> BTW, is pkgmerge for .tbz2 packages only or can it deal with .ebuild files? |
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pkgmerge only handles tbz2 packages. |
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If you want to compile and merge a package from sources you must use |
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ebuild [package].ebuild merge |
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> If its for .tbz2 messages only perhaps it should generate a proper error |
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> message informing the user instead of spitting out the python error: |
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> root@gentoo zlib > pkgmerge zlib-1.1.3-r2.ebuild |
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> Traceback (most recent call last): |
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> File "/usr/sbin/pkgmerge", line 68, in ? |
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> mykey=mytbz2.getelements("CATEGORY")[0]+"/"+mypkg[:-5] |
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> IndexError: list index out of range |
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> If pkgmerge is in fact for .tbz2 files only, is there anyway to get ebuild |
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> to autobuild dependencies yet? Its rather tedious without it due to all the |
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> dependies for things such as gnome... |
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> > > Third, I don't see any mention of DHCP in networking scripts. Is there |
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> a |
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> > > clean way to quickly implement DHCP client support in the existing |
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> scripts |
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> > > without rm'ing the template eth0 example? |
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> > There is no dhcpclient script at the moment. But we will have reqorked |
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> sysv |
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> > scripts in rc4 that support dhcp. |
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> Actually after reading the dhcpcd manpage it would seem rather simple to do |
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> DHCP on an interface... if I have any luck I'll send the mailing list my |
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> modified .eth0 file for use as an example or whatever :) |
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That would be a good thing. |
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achim~ |
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> Thanks for your time... |
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> -- Bruce A. Locke (blocke@××××××.org) |
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