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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:39:12PM -0700, Dominic Leland wrote: |
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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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The new pkgmerge is designed for our "generation two" .tbz2 format, and doesn't |
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work with the earlier .tbz2 packages included with Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc4_pre2. |
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This means that before upgrading Portage to 1.5, you should pkgmerge everything |
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you need from the rc4_pre2 CD first. After that, you'll need to do this to |
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install an rc4_pre2 package: |
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# cat pkg.tbz2 | bzip2 -d | tar xpvf - -C / |
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pre/post inst/rm scripts won't be called when using this simplified install, but |
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most packages don't have them and all will be well. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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