Can't update Portage/coreutils from 2007.0 LiveCD - lzma?

craigpratt · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 6 Location: portland, or

Hey all,

So I'm going along installing the 3rd server I've setup from 2007.0 LiveCD and I'm encountering a fresh conundrum.

I do an "emerge --sync", setup my make.conf, and then go about the business of updating Portage (as suggested after the --sync). After dealing with the mktemp/coreutils blockage, I go about updating Portage and run into the following:

AllenJB · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:14 am Post subject:

The next version down of coreutils doesn't require the lzma functionality, so first upgrade coreutils to the next version down, which is still higher than what the latest portage wants, with: emerge -a ~sys-apps/coreutils-6.9

Now you should be able to upgrade portage with: emerge -a portage
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craigpratt · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 6 Location: portland, or

Thanks Allen - but still no joy:

Ran:

DawgG · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 491

does the command

UTgamer · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

krinn · Advocate Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 3178

i solve that problem by

emerge -C mktemp
emerge -1 util-linux
emerge -1 coreutils (it is v 6.11 taken here. emerge take automake-1.10-1 and lzma-utils.4.32.5 as dependencies)
emerge --nodeps bash portage (portage v2.1.5_rc6 in my case, my bash was too old also)

craigpratt · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 6 Location: portland, or

Thx Krinn for the tips. I couldn't run the steps from top-to-bottom - as coreutils still would not update w/o an updated portage. But I was able to hobble together a solution with "emerge --nodeps portage" that got me going.

Here's what I ran:

Kuang Eleven · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 16

I can attest that I saw the exact same thing. Excruciatingly annoying, and stuff like this has happened to me a few time with recent ebuilds...

Anyways, I tried all the the above steps, but to no avail.

Emerging portage required coreutils

Emerging portage with nodeps shows the error "failed to make docs"

Emerging coreutils shows the error "Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE"

Any help here? The system is pretty much unusable now...

krinn · Advocate Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 3178

jsosic · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

Kuang Eleven you have to:

hossiken · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

Well I have spent just over a full week of my time trying to get my system up to date. I spent 4 days trying to pull up an old build 2006.1 to the latest sync world deep but ran into this crazy lmza crapola and many other crazy bugs. (It’s a good think I took several images along the way … or I would have put a bullet through my gentoo poster!) I finally gave up (or took a new approach .. as I have images) and blasted the disk and started fresh with a stable 2007.0 build and found the same lzma crapola. I have seen all the slashdots about the core developers abandoning gentoo and leaving just the rookies to run the show but tell now I have not really seen the impact. I hate to say it but at this point gentoo is so broken that the average gentoo user (lets face it: average gentoo user == hard core compared to most) is toast. I have a master gentoo friend that says the only way he can still use gentoo is to have all his popular apps scripted to re-compiled his downloaded and tweaked source code after an emerge sync (Note he has almost no use flags! He just sets CHOST… he compiles everything from his custom scripts) My master gentoo friend also informs me that even with all this custom scripting automation, that he now spends many hours every time he –syncs to fix various stuff. This brings me to my final thought … at what point do you draw the line for “customization/speed/performance”? I guess if we all really wanted full low level control of our systems we could start with writing our own assemblers and kernels…. At what point is it too much trouble to have full control over the system? Where do we draw the line? For me it appears to be having a Fubared box right out of the box. I’m very sad as I have been a gentoo fan for so many years. I always told my peers .. “if you wana know what’s really going on with linux then you need to install gentoo … it’s the only true way to learn”. I’m going to try the 2008.X beta and see if its any better … but if I don’t ever respond to this post then I have abandoned gentoo. It was a great run and I will miss it deeply

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yngwin · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:55 am Post subject:

I recommend to always use the most recent stage3 from funtoo.org/linux. I follow my own advice and have never had a problem with these unofficial stage3 tarballs. Instead it saves you a lot of hassle.

Fixed the link, even with tags links are not generated as may be expected when the protocol is not specified. --desultory
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BiynaYahu · n00b Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 40

Peace Everyone....

meyerm · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

Hi guys,

I just ran into the same problems when trying to update some old server which is only touched when a security warning tells me so.

After portage no longer wanting to update coreutils and m4 because of the missing lzma-support, and portage itself not beeing able to be updated thanks to the block of a newer bash, I finally solved it by updating portage manually (without dependencies) to 2.1.4.4. This version works with the lzma-stuff.

wan-geek · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

What's bothering me is that I _just_ built a machine 2 days ago with the latest 'current' stage-3 and am running into this problem upon trying to get the system up to date.

-C