{"id":95,"date":"2005-03-17T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-04-26T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T21:16:00","slug":"joyous-massive-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2005\/joyous-massive-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

  • set up proxy<\/li>\n
  • add scripts directory to pathemacs \/home\/m\/.bashrc<\/li>\n
  • set up proxy<\/li>\n
  • set up CVSROOT<\/li>\n
  • add scripts dir to pathemerge –sync<\/li>\n
  • no luck, firewalled (wonder what port it needs)emerge-webrsync<\/li>\n
  • “attempting to fetch file dated: (today)”<\/li>\n
  • no luck, not getting to my proxy<\/li>\n
  • use other proxy, working now, waiting…<\/li>\n
  • not much feedback, i do see disk\/eth activity…<\/li>\n
  • FINALLY done! Number of files: 114156 (53MB!)”An update to portage is available.”<\/li>\n
  • emerge –update –deep portage<\/li>\n
  • Yikes, it’s chugging along! Maybe I didn’t need that –deep… Holy crap… it’s out of control!! hahaha There goes perl… glibc… Remember -a or -p next time. :>* Regenerating GNU info directory index…
    \n* Processed 295 info files.
    \n* IMPORTANT: 12 config files in \/etc need updating.
    \n* Type emerge –help config to learn how to update config files.<\/p>\n

    etc-update<\/li>\n

  • Updated everything except one with Oracle-related info.emerge –update –deep system\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

  • Googling…—\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

  • Yepp, thats a nasty dependency that Gentoo has setup, opengl-update requers a newer version of xorg and xorg requers the newer version of opengl-update, sadly Gentoo can’t handle this kind of dependencies well (or it’s not documented properly).<\/li>\n
  • Dude, that’s what –nodeps is for…emerge –nodeps xorg-x11\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

  • “Skipping sync, Updating portage cache…” – looks like this was already done by webrsync…etc-update (updated 14 files)\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

  • export CVSROOT=:ext:myuser@mybox.com:\/home\/m\/development\/CVSROOT<\/li>\n
  • mkdir ~\/development<\/li>\n
  • mkdir ~\/development\/view<\/li>\n
  • cvs checkout ModuleThat easy! Whee!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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