Re: [gentoo-dev] build rc6 r14

[Kevin Gordon]

Many thanks for your help Juergen. I will experiment some more with emerge.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Juergen Ilse" <juergen@×××××××××××.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] build rc6 r14


> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:16:22PM +1300, Kevin Gordon wrote:
> > I like 'emerge system'. I am not keen on downloading 620+MB cd via a
56KB
> > ISP. Have you thought about 'emerge desktop-kde' 'emerge desktop-gnome'
> > 'emerge server' 'emerge developer' etc with options
> > like --FetchFirst --NoConfig etc.
>
> It is there, even, if you don't see it ... ;-)
> "emerge system" should not download 620 MB (i think, it was not the case
> while i installed it). For the rest, you may want to put together a list
> of "wanted packages" and do a "emerge --fetchonly <list of packages>".
> That will get the packages and put the sources in the "distfiles"
directory.
> Every "emerge <package-name>" should then get the sources from this direc-
> tory (as far as the sources will be found there and the checksum ist ok).
>
> > Hence the attached script file "kgget". It contains 300+ lines of
> > "emerge --noreplace --fetchonly xxxxxxx.ebuild". Some of the lines do
not
> > work because I have not changed the version numbers and / or checked the
> > locations in the /usr/portage tree. In the main it works very well.
>
> You may try to use the name of the directory containig a package rather
> than the .ebuild file. This works for me in most cases and will emerge
> the newest package from that directory that is not masked out and which
> is complete (including digest-file).
>
> Btw.: I noticed, that the digest-file for cdrecord is missing since
> several weeks. Someone should build a digest-file (as i did for my
> private installation to work around this problem ;-) ).
>
> > Here are some problem areas (some may be currently masked out
packages?):
> > - powertweak-0.1.17-r1 but this has an incoming ebuild.
>
> powertweak is AFAIK masked out
>
> > - cdrecord-1.9-r3 message no digest but it has got one.
>
> The digest seems to be missing. If you really want to build it, you may
> create a digest-file for yourself (but you have to know, that this will
> disable the chance to see unwanted modifications to the source ...).
>
> > - gtk-xemacs-21.1.12-p3 message fetch failed.
>
> I don't really remember, but maybe this file would be downloaded from
> the "original location" and that failed for you ... In such cases, i
> will try to find a mirror which holds this file, get it from there and
> put the file in /usr/portage/distributions. "emerge <package>" should
> then try to use the sourcefile from there instead of downloading it ...
>
> > - sgml2x-0.11-r1 message not found.
>
> maybe masked out (i didn't try to build it for a longer time)
>
> > - unixODBC-2.0.8 message not found
>
> I don't remeber, if i created a digest for myself, but i'm shure, that
> i compiled this one some time ago ...
>
> > - xt-1 aborted virtual/jdk not found
>
> There will be a change in handling of jdk. Maybe the build will work,
> if you first try to install a jdk-version ...
>
> > - gtk-engines-0.12-r1 no digest problem with Xenophilia-1.2.x.
>
> don't know
>
> > - sawfish-themes-0.0.1 not found
>
> don't know
>
> > - bitchx-gtk --> ircii-pana-1.Oct18 no digest.
>
> didn't try it, so i don't know
>
> > - amaya-4.1-r1 portage/amaya not found
>
> don't know
>
> > - gtoaster --> problem with virtual/jdk-1.3.
>
> You may try to emerge a jdk first.
>
> > - 3 or so packages not found tcl-tk-8.4.2.
>
> IIRC is tcl-tk-8.4.2 maked out because of compatibility-problems with
> some other packages (i don't really remember about it, but i think, i read
> something on this list).
>
> Hope, that helps you to install some of these packages.
>
> ciao,
> Juergen Ilse (ilse@××××××.de)
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