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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 2:23 pm    Post subject: Emerge Issue(s) Reply with quote

After a recent update to Portage I noticed that I was not able to install any more packages via emerge. Every time that I invoke emerge it would tell me

... could not find match for 'package' : aborting

On the off chance that it was something that I had done I choose to rebuild the system. It fails in the same way after bootstrap.sh emerges portage.

... could not find match for baselayout: aborting

Has anyone else seen this ? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

~~ Steve ~~
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does any part of portage work? emerge -s, emerge -p? I did find this thread that mentions 'emerge baselayout'. Not sure if that will work in this case though.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had the same problem, unfortunately during my first Gentoo install on a Sparc. The 'rescue' edition of portage doesn't seem to be packaged for sparc so I had to fix dirty, unpacking the stage1 tarball over my freshly installed system. Anyway the following seems to work also, I noticed later. ebuild doesn't use all the fancy search and dependancy stuff emerge uses, it seems.

ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.13.ebuild merge

(the first arg should be the full path to an ebuild of a functioning older portage). It seems a good idea to emerge rsync after that.

BTW When I merge portage-2.0.25, I cannot merge anything the normal way because emerge thinks all ebuilds are masked. You guys have the same problem?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Got this reply from Jack Morgan:

The problem is portage. For now, you should be using portage-2.0.13. Newer versions of portage use KEYWORDS="sparc i86 ppc sparc64" etc. If the package, say gnupg, doesn't have the KEYWORDS"=sparc" then it will not install. You could try passing this option at the command line before you do emerge gnupg. This issue should be fixed in the next week or so.

Hope This Helps,

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Jack Morgan Gentoo-Sparc Developer
GnuPG Key ID: 0x620F545F http://pgp.mit.edu

For the initial install I had to reapply the stage1 and then mask all current versions of portage. This allowed the install to continue.

My original problem was that when I emerged the new version of portage an emerge --update world would not find any packages to update. If I tried to update a single package I would get the no match found error and it would not install anything.

I will keep the 2.0.13 version of portage for now to get my system back on its legs.

~~ Steve ~~
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thx Steve, thx Jack!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 7:21 am    Post subject: Portage 2.0.13 not available Reply with quote

I'm having the same problem that was described here. However, it seems that portage 2.0.13's ebuild file has been removed from the latest rsyncs. I've merged 2.0.34, but I still have problems with not being able to merge any packages.

They all appear to be masked. Even the ebuilds with "sparc" as a keyword. Any thoughts? How would I track down why a package is masked?

Thanks,

Chris
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 5:09 pm    Post subject: Every ebuild is maksed for sparc? Reply with quote

I 've just done an emerge rsync on my gentoo sparc 5 at work. Nearly every package I try to emerge says [Masked]. I checked a few and they contain keyword "~sparc".

Why are so many packages masked for sparc? I can't install kde for instance....
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 2:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Purely out of speculation, I'd say that they are masked because most of the ebuild developers are not developing on a sparc platform. Further, since not too many people are testing or using sparc builds, it's never unmasked.

Most packages that I've run into with no refrence to sparc, or a ~sparc in ARCH can still be compiled. Just edit the ebuild. [/quote]
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