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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 23:49:57
Message-Id: 2577130.mvXUDI8C0e@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sunday, 11 April 2021 11:33:22 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
4 > > > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/
5 > > > gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash,
6 > > > and that works too. Then I leave the profile at the default vanilla
7 > > > amd64 and emerge-webrsync. So far so good. Then when I try emerge
8 > > > -uaDvN @world I get a circular dependency involving elt-patches and
9 > > > xz-utils. No amount of unsetting of USE flags makes any difference. Nor
10 > > > does --excluding one of them, because portage just refuses to do that.
11 > >
12 > > Try omitting -D and -N to reduce the number of packages being rebuilt. If
13 > > that doesn't help, post the output here.
14 >
15 > I think I must have had a bad stage tarball. At any rate, that problem
16 > doesn't occur now. Instead I get various ruby packages failing because they
17 > can't find the gems directory, or some other problem.
18 >
19 > There was once a news item about ruby-30, but I don't see it any more. At
20 > the time I added this:
21 >
22 > # cat /etc/portage/package.use/ruby
23 > dev-ruby/* ruby_targets_ruby30
24 > virtual/rubygems ruby_targets_ruby30
25 > virtual/ruby-ssl ruby_targets_ruby30
26 >
27 > That worked nicely, but not on a new system. I've tried changing the 20 to
28 > 27 and I've tried removing the file, but neither helps. Eselecting ruby
29 > versions doesn't either.
30
31 Typo: 30, not 20.
32
33 --
34 Regards,
35 Peter.