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…<\/p>\n
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emacs \/etc\/profile<\/p>\n
etc-update<\/li>\n
!!! Error: the sys-apps\/modutils package conflicts with another package.<\/p>\n
!!! both can’t be installed on the same system together.<\/p>\n
!!! Please use ’emerge –pretend’ to determine blockers.<\/p>\n
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:<\/p>\n
Calculating system dependencies …done!<\/p>\n
[blocks B ] sys-apps\/modutils (is blocking sys-apps\/module-init-tools-3.0-r2)<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] app-arch\/cpio-2.6-r1 [2.5]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] app-arch\/gzip-1.3.5-r5 [1.3.5-r4]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] app-arch\/ncompress-4.2.4-r1 [4.2.4]<\/p>\n
[ebuild UD] net-misc\/rsync-2.6.0-r3 [2.6.3]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] net-misc\/wget-1.9.1-r3 [1.9-r2]<\/p>\n
[ebuild N ] dev-perl\/Locale-gettext-1.01-r1<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/help2man-1.33.1 [1.29]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/coreutils-5.2.1-r4 [5.2.1-r2]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/ed-0.2-r6 [0.2-r4]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/kbd-1.12-r3 [1.12-r2]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/man-pages-2.01 [1.70]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/net-tools-1.60-r11 [1.60-r9]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-process\/procps-3.2.4-r3 [3.2.3-r1]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-devel\/libtool-1.5.10-r4 [1.5.2-r7]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-process\/psmisc-21.5 [21.4]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-apps\/shadow-4.0.5-r3 [4.0.5-r2]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] net-misc\/openssh-3.9_p1-r2 [3.8.1_p1-r1]<\/p>\n
[ebuild U ] sys-devel\/bin86-0.16.16 [0.16.13]<\/li>\n
emerge unmerge modutils && emerge module-init-tools<\/p>\n
“I ran into this on every box I originally built with 2.4 when I upgraded to 2.6.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t -want- to install modutils, it’s telling you that modutils is installed, and is blocking module-init-tools.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
emerge –pretend –update –deep system<\/p>\n
(that works now, whee!)<\/p>\n
emerge –update –deep world<\/p>\n
(working…)<\/p>\n
I got three “blocks”, firefox, mozilla and x11-base\/opengl…<\/p>\n
emerge mozilla-firefox (taking forever)<\/p>\n
emerge unmerge mozilla<\/p>\n
checked firefox, still works, so that’s good…<\/p>\n
As far as the X11 dependency, I found this:<\/li>\n
YIKES! 44MB coming down!<\/p>\n
ok, it’s like buttah baby…<\/p>\n
emerge –update –deep world<\/p>\n
ok, that one’s gonna take a while…<\/p>\n
first I installed monkey-bubbles so i’d have something to do while watching all that building!! :><\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
emerge portage<\/p>\n
emerge-webrsync (Waiting… waiting…)<\/p>\n
emerge metadata<\/li>\n
Let’s try a little manual repair…<\/p>\n
emerge opengl-update (OK except m4 warnings)<\/p>\n
emerge sys-devel\/m4 (OK)<\/p>\n
OK, let’s try again!<\/p>\n
emerge –update –deep world<\/p>\n
qt crapped out<\/p>\n
emerge libtools<\/p>\n
ok<\/p>\n
emerge world<\/p>\n
(much smaller update than with –update (or –deep, obviously))<\/p>\n
updating qt…<\/p>\n
worked like a charm!<\/p>\n
emerge –update –deep system<\/p>\n
(nothing to do, cool)<\/p>\n
emerge –update world<\/p>\n
(nothing to do, cool)<\/p>\n
emerge –update –deep world<\/p>\n
still a lot… going…<\/p>\n
qt crapped out again!<\/p>\n
Oh well, leaving it for now.<\/p>\n
And here’s how to get CVS working…<\/li>\n
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-projects","category-projects","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-1x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}