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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:56:23PM +0100, Iain Craig wrote: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> Apologies if any of this has been covered previously. This is just my |
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> problem list when installing rc5, which is otherwise wonderful. |
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> 1. First off, "emerge rsync" appears to clobber /etc/make.conf and |
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> /etc/make.globals. Admittedly my CONFIG_PROTECT was "", allowing such a |
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> clobber, but the clobber reset my CONFIG_PROTECT to the default; I think |
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> this is by design but is slightly annoying. |
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emerge rsync doesn't touch these files, but a remerge of Portage will fry |
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make.conf and make.globals without CONFIG_PROTECT being set. |
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> 2. Depmod -a always shouts about unresolved symbols in all modules, although |
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> the modules still work fine. From #gentoo I gather this is a known problem |
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> with rc5, and doesn't stop anything working. |
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The new initscripts (being tested over here) should resolve this. |
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> 3. After an emerge I get a warning about all missing info files. Again, I |
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> believe this is a known issue that doesn't stop things working. |
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This was intentional so that are developers are reminded of bogus ebuilds. Chad |
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has already found a way to fix this (see the archives of about a week ago), but |
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to my knowledge no production ebuilds have yet been fixed. |
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> 4. BitchX installation creates incorrect symlink. Following "emerge |
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> bitchx-1.0.18-r2.ebuild", the link /usr/bin/BitchX pointed to something |
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> non-existant, instead of the correct /usr/bin/BitchX-1.0c18. Unfortunately I |
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> can't remember where precisely it did link as I've already pointed it to |
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> where it should be. My setting were default USE flags, CONFIG_PROTECT="", |
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> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu", CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe", |
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> CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe" |
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Not sure about this one, but someone should look into it. pm? |
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> Hope this helps. Great work folks, I love the OS. |
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Thanks for the reports and we're glad you love Gentoo Linux :) |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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