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Apparently, though unproven, at 01:09 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer |
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> > Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What |
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> > stage |
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> > 3 did you download and use? |
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> Actually, I used the most recent one - I think May 26th, However, my first |
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> install (that I screwed up on was the May 25th one, but I got the same |
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> message. Don't know if it makes a difference, but I used a tarball for |
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> x86. |
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I'm not sure how the stages are built. it might be a hand-crafted list of |
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stuffs, or maybe it's a script that builds the (mostly) same thing for each |
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arch. |
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I reckon the latter, in which case x86 and amd64 will probably give similar |
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results. |
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> Think I'll try the fix that I found on google first before attempting to |
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> find a stage 3 tarball that is not faulty. |
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The google fix will work. Really, trust me, I'm a sysadmin :-) |
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It's just a missing file that the install process should have made. You simply |
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need to make it manually. |
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> BTW, I can't recall from previous installs when I'm supposed to do this, |
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> but I thought that baselayout got emerged somewhere during the install |
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> prior to rebooting. There was no place in the handbook that mentioned |
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> installing baselayout ...... and yes, I did read the news item about |
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> baselayout2 and openrc migration. |
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The initial stage contains baselayout already, it's one of those things that |
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is absolutely needed for a gentoo system to even exist at all. All a stage |
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really is, is a large archive of an actual install with all it's various bits |
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- files, dirs, and the matching entries in portage's database of things |
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installed. |
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OK, it's not really built like that but the analogy will suffice. The end |
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result is the same and portage cannot tell the difference between baselayout |
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coming out of the stage and you installing it yourself. |
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The only time you install baselayout during an install is when you update |
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world and there's a newer baselayout available than the one in the stage. |
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That's true for almost every package in portage (except kernel sources, those |
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are special) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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