[gentoo-user] What's my architecture ? - was System update problems

[Rupert Young (Restart)]

I was having a problem updating my system, but I think I have a more
fundamental problem. I'm not sure what my architecture is!

Sorry for the dumb question.

uname -a, gives the following

Linux fluffy 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 09:57:23 UTC 2004 x86_64 AMD
Opteron(tm) Processor 250 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Does this mean my arch is x86 or amd?

For those who have managed to get this far without collapsing in fits of
hysterics a bit of history,

* Someone installed gentoo about a year ago for me.
* Last week I wanted to add some apps and as I was finding probs decided to
do an upadate.
* I think I did emerge sync first.
* then tried emerge -uDpv world
* somewhere I had a problem that make.profile was not linked
* I did a symbolic link to the amd64 2005.1 dir
* then had various problems, such as 
!!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 failed, 
when doing emerge -uv system

I have now link make.profile to
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1

Was this right?

I then did emerge --sync and etc-update on 61 config files.

Now getting the error below on emerge -upv system.

Am I barking up the right tadpole?

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-libs/libstdc++-v3" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
request:
- sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.3-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.


!!! Problem with ebuild sys-devel/gcc-3.4.1-r1
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.

Regards,
 
Rupert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk]
> Sent: 22 September 2005 14:19
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rupert Young (Restart)
> > [mailto:rupert.young@×××××××××××××××××.com]
> > Sent: 22 September 2005 12:25
> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems
> >
> >
> > Thanks. Unless anyone else has any suggestions I will try it.
> >
> > Can anyone else confirm this is the way to go before I try?
>
> It depends how patient you are.  The suggested fix will bring your
> machine up to an "as new" condition.  On the other hand, it might
> unnecessarily rebuilt packages that may not be broken or need updating
> (yet) and will take years to complete (well, it depends on how fast your
> machine is :-)  That said I would think that after a whole year there
> wouldn't be much left in portage, which has not a new ebuild?
>
> As an alternative, if your machine is not totally hosed you could start
> from the bottom up rebuilding the core packages and after a fresh
> --sync, update the whole world.  Try re-emerging the gentoo toolkit:
> gcc-config glibc binutils libstdc++.  Run # etc-update and # env-update
> && source /etc/profile as required and rebuild portage; do another
> --sync; and then emerge -upDv world to see what comes up in need for an
> update.
>
> However, if basic compilers, etc. are broken you will not be able to
> re-emerge the toolkit and the solution suggested by Dave remains the
> best option.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
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