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Hello, Harry, |
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Long time, no see! |
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. |
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> It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. |
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> After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so |
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> many blocks, use flag changes and a variety of other bad news in |
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> such proliferation... I'm thinking better to install from scratch with |
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> latest ISO. |
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I know the feeling. When the same thing happened to me (my system got |
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into a mess because I was running XFCE which was too dependent on |
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gnome-2; when gnome-3 became stable, the demons of hades were let |
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loose, and I tried a couple of times, half-heartedly, to update), I told |
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myself to stop and think. |
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I could spend days fighting with use flags and conflicts, or I could |
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spend a few days reinstalling. In the end I reinstalled (using the old |
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system (rather than an ISO image) to do the initial stages. It took me |
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about a week, compared with about a month the first time I seriously |
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installed Gentoo. "Installation" here means getting everything up and |
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running, including X with destop manager, printing, sound, email server |
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and client, .... |
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> ,---- |
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> | NOTE: The full mess can be viewed here: |
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> | zeus.jtan.com/~reader/vutxt/images/emerge_MassiveFailure-150823.txt |
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> `---- |
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> I've been quite a long time gentoo user but last 2+ yrs only very |
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> lightly. |
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> I'm awful dumb for someone who has problably more than 15 yrs running |
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> gentoo. |
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I doubt that! But if I were only using Gentoo lightly for an extended |
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period, I'd forget a _lot_. |
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> I wondered if there are some very new ISO's that would contain all |
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> major changes in last year or so once I got the core installed and key |
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> useflags/make.conf setup? |
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That's not the way Gentoo works - (what was that I was saying about |
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forgetting things?). The Gentoo ISO is really just an installation |
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environment to boot up into, one with enough power for you to be able to |
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download and install a stage 3 into which you reboot, then really get |
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going with configuring the system, and installing further stuff, etc. |
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All the new stuff from the last few months is in portage (which you get |
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with $ emerge --sync, and so on). |
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> Can anyone advise me which iso to use? And which profile to set for |
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> general use in a vbox, hopefully to allow a `no sweat' emerge to a |
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> full OS. |
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Painful though it might seem, I'd suggest you go back to the Gentoo |
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handbook and do a bit of revision. It's been moved to the Gentoo wiki |
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at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page. |
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I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with |
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stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just |
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reinstalled months earlier than I did. |
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Whatever you end up doing, all the best! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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