New profiles, rebuild world

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 773

Hi,

I'm following the procedure for upgrading to the new Gentoo profiles.

Part of this entails rebuilding the world, like so:

sleepingsun · Guru Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 458 Location: Bosnia

just try to reemerge

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 773

Thank you, sleepingsun

This is what I have done, but the modules I mentioned are not in the package database directly, they were added by crossdev

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21621

/usr/bin/crossdev should have created / updated a local overlay and placed those packages into it, then used Portage to install them from that overlay. What is the output of emerge --pretend --verbose list-of-cross-packages?

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 773

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21621

Did you remove the overlay that crossdev used to prepare those packages? Otherwise, they should still be available, even if specific versions have aged out.

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 773

Hello Hu,

No, I'm sure I did NOT remove any overlay.

cboldt · Veteran Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1046

I'd fix the ebuild problem rather than exclude those files from an update.

Either the ebuilds exist and aren't found, or they don't exist. I assume the ebuilds are listed in var/lib/portage/world, but would confirm that.

I'd look in /usr/local/portage for cross-i686-w64-mingw32 and cross-x86_64-w64-mingw32 folders. If not /usr/local/portage, whatever the location specified in repos.conf is. Those folders should contain the ebuild files.

If you can't locate the ebuilds by looking in the usual places, use `find` or `locate` to see if your filesystem has any *mingw32.*ebuild files.

If the ebuilds are absent from the system, I'd just rebuild those overlays and associated ebuilds using the appropriate crossdev command.

If the ebuilds are present, then the problem is elsewhere, maybe some setting in make.conf of repos.conf does not match the location of the ebuilds.

I notice the crossdev ebuilds are defined by softlinks ...

Sembiance · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:26 pm Post subject:

Or just disable PIE.

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 773

Sembiance,

I understand your point of view. It IS possible to disable PIC/PIE using the method you described and it IS sort-of like this "hardened" feature is being forced onto mainstream users, but Windows and OSX have had PIE for years as a default. The devs wish to make Gentoo just as secure.

So you might be able to hold-out for a while, but eventually, there may not be any choice.

This is why I am changing-over now.

Thanks for the info

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21621

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 773

Thank you, Hu

I first thought that the problem was because I skipped entering the location of the overlay in /etc/portage/make.conf.

So I removed the crossdeved-compiler