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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:35:31 +0000 |
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scarab <jacques@××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> greetings from south africa! |
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> before i begin, i yould just like to add that gentoo, i feel, is the |
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> greatest thing to hit linux-land. i'm going to deploy it all over our |
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> current server farm, to say it mildly, it rocks! |
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> my problem... i can solve by compiling the package myself, but i would |
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> just like to know, if poossible, what is causing the problem. |
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> i have a brand new install of gentoo 1.2. i've just rsync'd the |
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> lastest portage tree. when i run "emerge mozilla", i get the following |
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> message... |
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> "calculating dependencies.." |
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> "!!! Error: couldn't find match for : in net-www/mozilla-1.0-r3" |
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> if i look in /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla... i find |
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> mozilla-1.0-r3.ebuild.... which looks authentic. i've tried copying |
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> across the mozilla directory across froma machine that emerge'd it's |
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> mozilla perfectly, without any success. |
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> any ideas?? |
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oh yes, the problem is the package "portage" that appears to be |
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slightly out of date and doesnt handle the new syntax. |
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please run "emerge rsync; emerge portage; " and you will have a breeze |
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in installing mozilla :) |
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//Spider |
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