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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:20 am    Post subject: Probkems with emerging on new system. Reply with quote

Using a current stage 3 and portage snapshot the system installs and boots ok (I'm using a pre-built
Gentoo kernel) but won't emerge anything. The first thing I tried was lafilefixer, and got the result:
Code:

... skipped package list ...

Total: 165 packages (165 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB

 * Error: circular dependencies:

(sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on
 (sys-devel/gcc-4.5.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)
  (sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)

 * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
 * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.


(This is with the default make.conf and make.profile)

I can get the required packages down to 25 or so by choosing USE flags, but eg: bash is still required.
I haven't seen anything like this before, and changing Stage 3 files and portage snapshots, and syncing
portage, has no effect. It looks as if emerge can't find the system file list, which is in /usr/portage/profiles/base
The man page puts it in /etc/portage/make.profile/packages, but I assume that's out of date. Clearing
out /var/cache/edb doesn't change the result.

I can't find any significant differences with a working Gentoo system - does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks - Wiill
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what do you get for:
Code:
emerge - s gcc glibc
gcc-config -l
emerge -- info
did you emerge portage? try package.mask glibc to earlier version(s)?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, changing USE flags and masking had no useful effect. On about the fifth attempt with various
Stage 3 files and portage snapshots it all worked, and I have no idea why. It looks as if emerge
couldn't find the list of installed system packages, but I don't know where that's stored - I couldn't
find it anywhere in the file system. Why emerge suddenly found it I don't know - I was using the
standard install routine I've used for four or five years now without problems.

Will
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