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090321 Mike Diehl wrote: |
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> Ok now, I'm getting fed up with all of the breakage |
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> that I've seen in Gentoo in the last few months. |
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I haven't experienced any such thing. |
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> I'm trying to upgrade MythTV. |
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I don't use that, so can't help directly. |
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> Emerge told me to upgrade my profile, which I did. |
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I have (for a 64-bit system with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor) : |
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make.profile -> ..//usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0 |
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> Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. |
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I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world', |
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then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually. |
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I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps, |
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which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items. |
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I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard: |
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repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its shortcomings |
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(was it copied from Free BSD when Gentoo was originally created ? ). |
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> But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense. |
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> When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: |
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> sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) |
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My hand-made list of pkgs tells me that I removed Mktemp 080419 |
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& that it had been required for Debianutils, |
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of which my current version is 2.28.5 installed 090314 . |
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Others had problems with this block, perhaps 1 year ago, |
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so if you really are that far behind in updating, |
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you should search the list archive to see what the advice was back then: |
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IIRC a new version of Debianutils incorporated the Mktemp stuff, |
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so they became incompatible. |
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> So I do 'emerge -C mktemp' & got a whole page of error messages. |
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> The most basic msgs indicates the system can't load libselinux.so.1. |
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Do you have an item in 'make.conf' which requires that somewhere ? |
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Have you run Revdep-rebuild (pretend), to see what needs updating ? |
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'slocate' finds no similar file on my system. |
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> All I want to do is upgrade a machine that I built a few months ago. |
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"A few months" can be a long time in the Gentoo world (smile). |
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For a desktop machine, you should do a full update >= once/month : |
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I do it as a matter of routine every Saturday ('eix-sync' + follow-up). |
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As others have advised, Gentoo is not for people |
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who want to install & forget: for that, try Mandriva, a respectable distro. |
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Anyway, I've offered a few hints above: try them & ask again here. |
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