[SOLVED] little help with perl-cleaner please? (mythtv and b

[BonesToo]

So I've got an old gentoo server I keep in the garage to run a mythTV server. It has Xorg on it, from some time ago, but i don't even use X any more, but I think its still required by the mythTV server (for the setup process). Anyway, I updated openSSL and openSSH the other day and it opened a world of hurt because it also updated to perl-5.12.2-r6. Now perl-cleaner --all is failing. Most of the packages on my system are fairly old and aren't even in portage any longer.

For example: gentoo-sources-2.6.30, xorg-server-1.6.3, lirc-0.8.5, gtk+-1.2.10-r12, mysql-5.0

EDIT: I should add, its a stable x86 machine. Nothing is in my /etc/portage/package.keywords file.

I fear myth isn't going to be fully functional again until I can get perl updated completely. I want to upgrade as least as possible, but I'm stuck right now on the next course of action. I think it may be upgrading xorg though.

Any ideas? Thanks for any help!


Here is the perl-cleaner output:

[Hu]

Although MythTV uses a graphical process to configure it, that process does not need to connect to an Xorg server running on the same machine as the MythTV process. You can remove Xorg and either run a VNC session to display the MythTV setup process or use X11 forwarding to display it elsewhere. Removing Xorg and its associated packages should simplify your upgrade path. If you need additional advice on the upgrade path, posting the output of emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep --tree world; emerge --info would be helpful.

[BonesToo]

Aaaah yes, emerge --info, sry bout that.

[Hu]

[BonesToo]

whoohoo!! perl-cleaner is running! Only 118 packages to go.

Ended up adjusting some USE flags, some compiling, upgraded obsolete packages, compiling, random emerge here and there, more compiling.

Came down to getting libpng upgraded and tweaking cairo/svg/poppler with -X.

[BonesToo]

Well, things were going good, but hit another road block.

I was running emerge -pvc to remove all old unused packages. I looked over the list and it all looked good to me so I ran it. Turns out as soon as it removed sys-apps/fileutils everything broke. My coreutils is at 7.5 and it wants to go up to 8.7, but now emerge won't work. I'm missing all the basic bins like rm and mv.

Any way to fix this? Possible to download the binaries and then re-emerge over it?

[BonesToo]

Following this post about using busybox sym links for missing files...so far so good
http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-Lost-coreutils-ftopict330941.html

EDIT
Total list of files linked to busybox to get coreutils compiled was
/bin -> ln, rm, ls, cp, mv, mkdir, chmod, cat, touch, rmdir, stty, sleep, echo, uname, pwd, date
/usr/bin -> install, test, sort, uniq, env

[BonesToo]

This thread has been a long time coming for me. I let this box go way to long without a full system update . I've really only maintained portage, the kernel and what was needed for mythtv. Paying the price now.

So I think I finally have a stable system again, but now I have a long list of packages (68 ) to install/update in order to get functioning apps again, ie. mythbackend. As I thought, mythtv requires I install xorg even if I don't want to install/run a myth frontend. Unless there is a way you can that I'm missing.

[Hu]

I cannot comment on =media-tv/mythtv-0.22_p24255, but at least some versions work fine on an Xorg-free system. Try running emerge --pretend --tree --deep --update =media-tv/mythtv-0.22_p24255 to see if you can tell why it needs an X server. If you already have an X server, then instead do emerge --pretend --verbose --depclean x11-base/xorg-server. Either this will succeed, indicating that you do not need an X server, or it will fail. If it fails, then the use of --verbose will tell --depclean to explain it refuses to remove x11-base/xorg-server. With enough patience, you can track that back to a desired package that has caused the dependency. Then, you can examine the USE flags of the package to understand whether you can adjust it not to require an X server.

[BonesToo]

Alright, further...

It was the imagemagick USE flag for the transcode process. Remove that and I get mythtv without X
Just not sure if that will break anything in mythtv that's looking to do image work though.

I still have mesa installed, but -opengl USE flag everywhere else.

EDIT: It was really VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" that was making imagemagick pull in the nvidia-drivers which in turn was pulling in xorg-server. So i just disabled nvidia instead of imagemagick support in transcode

[BonesToo]

Failing on a number of packages that look like the same autoconf type error; ghostscript-gpl and lcms

[BonesToo]

And this when emerging glib, fails on automake:

[BonesToo]

was still missing pwd and date, sym linked them to busybox and then re-emerged libtool and coreutils again, and now its moving again only 21 packages to go.

[BonesToo]

back up and running again...Thanks Hu