sys-kernel/usermode-sources - not there now - where?

galahad7 · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 50

Hi All,

In the Doc "Gentoo Linux Developer's guide to system testing with User-Mode Linux. The first thing specified is to emerge "sys-kernel/usermode-sources". Umm - its not there!

Can anyone advise what happened to User-Mode-Linux on Gentoo.
(I'm running 1.4_rc3, freshly installed)

Many thanks
Stephen

Carlos · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:46 am Post subject:

Hmm, I do see /usr/portage/sys-kernel/usermode-sources. Maybe you need to emerge rsync?
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galahad7 · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 50

Thanks for your reply, Carlos. Awesome.

You're right in that it is there in /usr/portage.

Here is the terminal output I'm getting...
>>>>>
general root # emerge sys-kernel/usermode-sources
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-kernel/usermode-sources" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.
>>>>>>

So then I checked the web view of packages at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/sys-kernel/index.xml and you will see that "usermode-sources" is not listed.

This is my first day on Gentoo. Be great if it was something simple!

Thanks
Stephen

Carlos · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 3:02 pm Post subject:

Ah, as it turns out, usermode-sources is masked for x86 because the devs aren't quite confident that it's stable (although that doesn't necessarily mean that it's unstable). Add

galahad7 · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 50

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the good tip. I updated to "~x86" and it found the sources. Fantastic.

I have a related query. I need to run openldap 2.1 and I have seen that version 2.1 is in CVS (2.1.12). When I do
emerge \>= openldap-2.1.12
I'm getting a response that all ebuilds that could satisfy >=openldap-2.1.12 have been masked.
(Latest stable version is 2.0.27)

Do you know how does one get the 2.1.12 version from CVS?

Many thanks
Stephen

galahad7 · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 50

Hi there,

I'm getting the hang of it.
I found the openldap-2.1.12 package under /usr/portage... and used -x86 rather than ~86 in make.conf. (Saw the need for -86 in the dependencies inside the openldap 2.1.12 portage document).

Thanks for your help Carl to get me on track.

Regards
Stephen

Carlos · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: Openldap OK; needed -x86

galahad7 · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 50

Thanks,

I didn't know at the time that -86 meant unstable.

I'll try compiling from original downloaded source and build it that way (which is likely to lead to the same result I guess since portage is all about compiling from source).

I'm setting up User-Mode Linux which is one of the many reasons for choosing Gentoo. :-)

I can try things in a UML Linux version without breaking the machine.

All the best and thanks for your help to get me going.

Regards
Stephen

Carlos · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:26 am Post subject: Re: use of -86