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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:31:06
Message-Id: 4F1A3130.1040809@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install by Grant
1 On 01/20/2012 09:42 PM, Grant wrote:
2 >>> # emerge -avDuN system
3 >>> [snip]
4 >>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20081028" have
5 >>> been masked.
6 >>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
7 >>> request:
8 >>> - sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r1 (masked by: EAPI 4)
9 >>> - sys-auth/pambase-20101024 (masked by: EAPI 3)
10 >>
11 >> USE="-pam" emerge @system will avoid that particular block, although it
12 >> may only get you as far as the next one.
13 >
14 > I seem to get an error like this from whatever I try to emerge. Is
15 > untarring a stage3 my only option?
16 >
17 > - Grant
18 >
19
20 You don't have to do the entire stage3 at once,
21
22 http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/
23
24 has precompiled packages for the major arches and profiles. You could
25 try to replace just pambase, pam, python, etc. -- whatever's giving you
26 trouble.
27
28 This was not my first recommendation because I've managed to break e.g.
29 `tar` and `cp` before in the attempt at which point you have two rescues
30 to attempt.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Resurrecting a Gentoo install Francesco Talamona <francesco.talamona@××××.eu>