[SOLVED] Need advice on updating world with dependencies

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

Hi,

There's been a long time since the last time I used and updated my gentoo system and now, a new year on the university begins and I need to use linux again; but before all that, I want to updated the system. But I need your help cause I don't want to mess things up...

As I already told, the last time I updated the system was long ago and now, I just did an "emerge -pvuDN world" and I get lots of entries, lots of them blocked and they are about 500mb of downloads (that's not a problem). The thing is, the blocked packages, I think it's something to do with Xorg 7.0 which some packages are already on the stable branch.

What I want to know, is how to update my system, unblocking what is blocked and emerge all packages without having any problems in the future cause of some big changes it may happen.

Below, I posted some files that you may need to take a look. The first one is the output from the "emerge -pvuDN world".

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emerge -pvuDN world

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package.keywords

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package.mask

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package.unmask

If you need the output from any other command or file, just let me know and I'll post it ASAP...

P.S: If you see the sentence "Clique AQUI para prosseguir" after clicking the package.mask or package.unmask links, just click on the word "AQUI" to see the file...

bluedevils · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

xorg went to a modular arch. Do a search on gentoo wiki moduar xorg and there should be an upgrade guide.

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

So, I just follow that guide and then all packages will be unblocked and will be able to update the whole system without any problems correct? 2 questions though...

1) How long do you think it will take my machine to compile all that 500mb of updates? I have a Pentium 2.0GHz (laptop centrino) with 1GB of ram.

2) That Xorg 7.0 modular doesn't mean I'll have XGL, right? If I want XGL I have to emerge other packages, right?

Section_8 · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject:

You may also have an upgrade to gcc there. Here is the upgrade guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml

You can pipe the output of emerge --pretend through genlop to get a time estimate:

bluedevils · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:

I don't remember xorg being openoffice or kde wise long, but if you upgrade gcc I found the best recompile is just to do everything (emerge -e world). Read the gcc upgrade guide.

I think the modular xorg compile was less than overnight on the sony t140. No XGL by default. In fact you probably won't notice anything blaringly different. I think they moved it this way for development puropses (I could very well be wrong).

bluedevils · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

BTW the gcc upgrade will probably help you with more than just xorg. I found more and more troubles with compiling ebuilds until I upgraded.

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

I'm using gcc 3.4.6-r1 and I really didn't want to upgrade to 4 right now... I think I'll just try to update the system without moving to gcc 4...

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

fixed all the problems.. now I'm just left with 400-500mb of updates...

thank you all.

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

Well, I'm left with some other problems that I don't know how to resolve... I've been searching a bit on google, this forums but couldn't find an explicit answer and I really don't know what to do...

mark_alec · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:33 am Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Portage & Programming. Couldn't see anything much unsupported.

For the CHOST error, read http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494147.html
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slycordinator · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:58 am Post subject:

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

that thread is pretty long but I read it all and found many links to other posts and there's too many opinions on what to do and there's lot of stuff I don't understand and I don't know what to do to fix this...

I just want to update my system and if possible not change the CHOST right now nor update to gcc 4.1.1 nor glibc, why can't I just leave this things how they are and update my system?

How can I do it without needing to change the CHOST?

slycordinator · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

YOU CAN'T

NPTL requires at least a 486. And i386 CHOST only guarentees that you are doing instructions that will run on a 386.

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

sorry, but... what's NPTL?

I guess my only option is to upgrade to gcc 4.1.1 (already blocked glibc 2.4) emerge -e system, emerge -e world and then unblock glibc 2.4 and change CHOST according to this guide: http://dev.gentoo.org/~amne/temp/change-chost.xml.

Is this enough?

slycordinator · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject:

native posix threading library

It's a replacement for LinuxThreads.

slycordinator · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject:

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

But the gcc upgrading guide tells me to emerge system and world after the gcc upgrade.

Should I just do the following step from gcc upgrade guide:

slycordinator · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:59 am Post subject:

slycordinator · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:35 am Post subject:

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

By CHOST-changing thread you mean this guide: http://dev.gentoo.org/~amne/temp/change-chost.xml ?

Cause that's what I was using to change the CHOST...

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

I was at the this step: Code Listing 2.10: Verifying refernces to the old CHOST are removed on the above guide and I got this:

slycordinator · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:38 am Post subject:

You must've skipped the earlier steps. The earlier steps tell you to remove those files (once you've verified that the 686 files have been created).

Code Listing 2.5: Removing the files with incorrect references

# rm 05gcc-i386-pc-linux-gnu

edit:
And remember that it's telling you to remove THE FILES that have the old references. Not just the file referred to in the code listing (because this code listing is based on the earlier one in the guide that only shows this one file having the old references).

Nazgulled · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 485

But I havent' skipped any steps, I did everything as the guide told me to do. However, none of those files were found during the earlier steps and that's why I don't understand why I got all those results...

Doing this:

# rm 05gcc-i386-pc-linux-gnu

I get a file not found error...

slycordinator · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry I don't know what to say. Never had to use that guide myself.

It might be (due to spending so much time trying to figure this out) quicker just to backup any important data and wipe the partition then use an i686 tarball for a reinstall.

slycordinator · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: