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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] musl install conflicts
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:42:15
Message-Id: 20180319054211.GB5815@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] musl install conflicts by "M. J. Everitt"
1 On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 01:24:59AM +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote
2
3 > May I ask whether you've posted to the -musl ML about this, at all?
4
5 I wasn't aware of it. I'll check it out.
6
7 > In my limited experience of amd64 musl, you first install git without
8 > gpg, and layman from the regular portage tree ONLY, per Step3
9
10 That's *EXACTLY* what I was trying to do (32-bit install). Let's just
11 say that I ran into various breakages. It refuses to build with the
12 default make.conf.
13
14 It wants me to change USE flags, keyword and unmask some packages,
15 etc. The net result is that it ends up trying to build almost 60
16 packages... and dying in the process, as mentioned in the comments of
17 step 5.
18
19 > and THEN run step 5 later on .. hence why 5 > 3. After that you can
20 > remove the package.use entry, sync up, and reinstall git from the
21 > musl overlay .. iirc.. So I'm not sure where I see your "circular
22 > dependency" issue?
23
24 I can't get past the emerge in step 3.
25
26 > It is conceivable that the relevant stage3 for *musl could have git and
27 > layman pre-installed by tweaking their profile to add these packages if
28 > it's felt necessary & appropriate. It would certainly make the install
29 > process a lot simpler & smoother ...
30
31 +1000
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34 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>