Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:56:56
Message-Id: b932915a1001061156u7022835dh85566092a247a13c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions by Walt Rarus
1 An earlier attempt to merge those sources failed and the install is left
2 incomplete. Do a --depclean to be safe, delete the source tree, merge it
3 again
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5 On 06 Jan 2010 9:33 PM, "Walt Rarus" <geeked.up@×××××.com> wrote:
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8 > So, please check where these files came from by > > qfile
9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile...
10 WALRUS ~ # qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile
11 sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources
12 (/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile)
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14 Whatever that means.
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16 > Have you installed this kernel 'by hand' i.e. outside of portage? >
17 No. I've not built nor installed *any* 2.6.31 kernel. I've never succeeded
18 in emerging the sources.
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20 Helmut, thanks for your rapid attention!