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Hi everyone, |
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I've been using Gentoo, off and on, since rc3 (I believe). When rc4-pre2 |
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came out, I wanted to go head-first into it. Unfortunately, I always mess up |
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my system with portage. Back then, when I would update portage, my pkgmerge |
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would be broken. With almost no software installed (and not enough energy to |
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compile everything from source) I would reinstall and ignore portage. |
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Back when I first tried this, I read a post here on gentoo-dev saying that |
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the portage I was using was broken and would be fixed soon. I left Gentoo |
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alone for a while. I wanted to wait for rc5 and give portage a little more |
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time to develop. |
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With all of the documentation improvements and a few portage updates, I |
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decided to try it again. I still have a broken portage/pkgmerge, but I did |
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get a little further last time. Just to compare, I am going to list the |
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steps I took this time: |
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1.Install Gentoo according to the Installation guide. FYI, in case you want |
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to know, here's how my partitions are set up: |
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/dev/hda1 VFAT ~25GB Windows |
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/dev/hda2 VFAT ~25GB Windows (data) |
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/dev/hda3 reiserfs 150MB /boot |
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/dev/hda4 25GB extended |
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/dev/hda5 reiserfs 4GB / |
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/dev/hda6 swap 250MB |
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(I'm planning on following Daniel's article on LVM - I'm leaving a bunch of |
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unallocated space after the swap) |
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2.Downloaded the latest (I think) rsync. |
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3.Rsync'ed the portage tree. |
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4.ebuild portage-x.y.z.ebuild merge -- This part suprisingly worked - it |
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didn't last time. |
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Even though portage seemed to merge fine, it would always fail whenever I |
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would go into any other directory and try to do an "ebuild |
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package-x.y.z.ebuild merge." I kept getting a "package already installed - |
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unmerge first" error (even on things I knew weren't installed like |
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Gnome-1.4). |
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The document's next step, assuming ebuilding worked, was to unmerge the |
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existing file, but since I had just started my /var/db/pkg tree, I wouldn't |
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have entries for anything I was upgrading. |
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Since the last time I tried this seemed to break my pkgmerge, I tried to |
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merge some packages off of CDROM. Nope. I keep getting errors (something |
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like "index out of range"). |
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I'm really anxious to get my system up and running and upgradable. I like |
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how the newer portage is recursive. Any help from the portage adepts is much |
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appreciated. |
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Thank you. |
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Dominic Leland |
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