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On Saturday 21 January 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 01/20/2012 09:42 PM, Grant wrote: |
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> >>> # emerge -avDuN system |
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> >>> [snip] |
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> >>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20081028" |
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> >>> have been masked. |
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> >>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete |
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> >>> your request: |
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> >>> - sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r1 (masked by: EAPI 4) |
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> >>> - sys-auth/pambase-20101024 (masked by: EAPI 3) |
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> >> |
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> >> USE="-pam" emerge @system will avoid that particular block, |
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> >> although it may only get you as far as the next one. |
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> > |
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> > I seem to get an error like this from whatever I try to emerge. Is |
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> > untarring a stage3 my only option? |
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> > |
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> > - Grant |
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> You don't have to do the entire stage3 at once, |
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> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ |
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> has precompiled packages for the major arches and profiles. You could |
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> try to replace just pambase, pam, python, etc. -- whatever's giving |
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> you trouble. |
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> This was not my first recommendation because I've managed to break |
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> e.g. `tar` and `cp` before in the attempt at which point you have |
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> two rescues to attempt. |
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Stage3 isn't your only option, keep it as the least. |
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In addition to Michael's good advice let me add that in your place I |
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would start unmerging every package not strictly needed for the task, |
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too many things changed in the last two years. I would leave only eix, |
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gentoolkit... I would also remove extra USE flags. |
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Another advice is: stabilize the system (emerge --depclean and revdep- |
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rebuild) before syncing portage, but from what I understand is too late, |
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it seems you already synced portage tree. |
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Another idea is to sync to an old portage version, doing your upgrade in |
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several big step instead of a single giant leap, take a look at this |
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link (maybe there are older around): |
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http://ftp.twaren.net/Gentoo/snapshots/ |
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Good luck |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 3.2.1-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 16 23:05:20 |
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CET 2012 |
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Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.24 Bogomips Total |
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