I really love Gentoo, but I don’t get to play with it enough (my main server is Fedora Core 3). Under Fedora, I use yum to stay up to date. On Gentoo, of course, there is portage. Here are some notes on the steps to get things updated on my spare Gentoo box…
emacs /etc/profile
* Processed 295 info files.
* IMPORTANT: 12 config files in /etc need updating.
* Type emerge –help config to learn how to update config files.
etc-update
!!! Error: the sys-apps/modutils package conflicts with another package.
!!! both can’t be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use ’emerge –pretend’ to determine blockers.
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating system dependencies …done!
[blocks B ] sys-apps/modutils (is blocking sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2)
[ebuild U ] app-arch/cpio-2.6-r1 [2.5]
[ebuild U ] app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r5 [1.3.5-r4]
[ebuild U ] app-arch/ncompress-4.2.4-r1 [4.2.4]
[ebuild UD] net-misc/rsync-2.6.0-r3 [2.6.3]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/wget-1.9.1-r3 [1.9-r2]
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.01-r1
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/help2man-1.33.1 [1.29]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r4 [5.2.1-r2]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/ed-0.2-r6 [0.2-r4]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r3 [1.12-r2]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.01 [1.70]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r11 [1.60-r9]
[ebuild U ] sys-process/procps-3.2.4-r3 [3.2.3-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.10-r4 [1.5.2-r7]
[ebuild U ] sys-process/psmisc-21.5 [21.4]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3 [4.0.5-r2]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-3.9_p1-r2 [3.8.1_p1-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/bin86-0.16.16 [0.16.13]
emerge unmerge modutils && emerge module-init-tools
“I ran into this on every box I originally built with 2.4 when I upgraded to 2.6.
It doesn’t -want- to install modutils, it’s telling you that modutils is installed, and is blocking module-init-tools.
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emerge –pretend –update –deep system
(that works now, whee!)
emerge –update –deep world
(working…)
I got three “blocks”, firefox, mozilla and x11-base/opengl…
emerge mozilla-firefox (taking forever)
emerge unmerge mozilla
checked firefox, still works, so that’s good…
As far as the X11 dependency, I found this:
YIKES! 44MB coming down!
ok, it’s like buttah baby…
emerge –update –deep world
ok, that one’s gonna take a while…
first I installed monkey-bubbles so i’d have something to do while watching all that building!! :>
OK, when it finished there were errors with the X11 building… it’s the next day so I will try to grab updated packages (20050324) and try again…
emerge portage
emerge-webrsync (Waiting… waiting…)
emerge metadata
Let’s try a little manual repair…
emerge opengl-update (OK except m4 warnings)
emerge sys-devel/m4 (OK)
OK, let’s try again!
emerge –update –deep world
qt crapped out
emerge libtools
ok
emerge world
(much smaller update than with –update (or –deep, obviously))
updating qt…
worked like a charm!
emerge –update –deep system
(nothing to do, cool)
emerge –update world
(nothing to do, cool)
emerge –update –deep world
still a lot… going…
qt crapped out again!
Oh well, leaving it for now.
And here’s how to get CVS working…
