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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:39:26
Message-Id: 4F1A5D4F.8090303@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install by Grant
1 Grant wrote:
2 >>>>> # emerge -avDuN system
3 >>>>> [snip]
4 >>>>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20081028" have
5 >>>>> been masked.
6 >>>>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
7 >>>>> request:
8 >>>>> - sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r1 (masked by: EAPI 4)
9 >>>>> - sys-auth/pambase-20101024 (masked by: EAPI 3)
10 >>>>
11 >>>>
12 >>>> USE="-pam" emerge @system will avoid that particular block, although it
13 >>>> may only get you as far as the next one.
14 >>>
15 >>>
16 >>> I seem to get an error like this from whatever I try to emerge. Is
17 >>> untarring a stage3 my only option?
18 >>>
19 >>> - Grant
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> You don't have to do the entire stage3 at once,
23 >>
24 >> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/
25 >>
26 >> has precompiled packages for the major arches and profiles. You could try to
27 >> replace just pambase, pam, python, etc. -- whatever's giving you trouble.
28 >>
29 >> This was not my first recommendation because I've managed to break e.g.
30 >> `tar` and `cp` before in the attempt at which point you have two rescues to
31 >> attempt.
32 >
33 > The errors I'm getting seem to be complaining about emerging ebuilds
34 > with a higher EAPI number than my portage has. Should I just install
35 > the latest portage binary package? If so, how should I do that?
36 >
37 > - Grant
38 >
39 >
40
41
42 Only because I had to do this once myself.
43
44 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
45
46 Hope that helps.
47
48 Dale
49
50 :-) :-)
51
52 --
53 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
54 how you interpreted my words!
55
56 Miss the compile output? Hint:
57 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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