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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Albert Hopkins [mailto:marduk@g.o] |
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> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:54 -0400, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: |
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> > emerge -eav world |
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> > The corresponding system emerge finished okay. At the beginning of |
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the |
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> > output of the aforementioned command I get. |
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> > |
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> > Calculating world dependencies \ |
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> > !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all |
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> > !!! masked or don't exist: |
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> > media-video/nvidia-glx media-video/nvidia-kernel app-shells/csh |
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> > x11-misc/gtkdiff sci-libs/lapack |
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> > |
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> > I can't find sci-libs/lapack (emerge --search lapack). Could someone |
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> > tell me how is portage looking for it? I think I had it installed |
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> > before |
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> > the upgrade. None of the nvidia stuff is currently installed but |
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were |
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> > installed before the system emerge. I can't find gtkdiff but csh is |
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> > indeed masked: |
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> Put simply, your current system is old, but it appears you've updated |
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> your portage tree. |
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Indeed system has been upgraded with gcc 4.1; it was a bit tricky. |
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> Portage is telling you that you have these packages |
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> installed but it can't find them in the portage tree. For example, |
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> nvidia-glx has long been replaced by nvidia-drivers. |
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> In the Gentoo world, you stand to suffer a bit if you wait a long time |
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> between updates. If you truly intend to keep your system "old", I |
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would |
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Yup. |
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> recommend you make a snapshot of the portage tree as well as your |
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> DISTDIR as those files may no longer be available as well. |
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> But if you truly want to do an "upgrade", would it not be better to do |
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a |
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> "emerge -Duva" world as opposed to "emerge -eva". "-eva" isn't |
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> upgrading anything, it's just re-building what you already have, but |
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> since many things you have currently no longer exist in portage, it's |
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> likely better to -u instead of -e. |
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Agreed. I used -e in the last upgrade step of system to rebuild it with |
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gcc 4.1 and ended up using for world. |
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> p.s. |
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> Seems like a few people are just now "upgrading" to 2006.1 when 2007.0 |
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> is soon to be released... why are you a year behind? |
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There was something weird about 2006; it went by too fast....:) |
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> -- |
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> Albert W. Hopkins |
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