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MadEgg l33t
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject: Xfree 4.3.0-r1 depends on baselayout? |
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As an attempt to fix my font-problems, I decided to upgrade my XFree4.2.3 to the still masked xfree.4.3.0-r1.
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u xfree
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I started emerging so I left it to it. When I came back, it appeared that it had also upgrade baselayout. Or maybe downgraded, anyway it did something to it. And it screwed up doing it.
After this happened, I couldn't boot my system anymore due to all sorts of messages of init, about /proc not being mounted and /.init.d. or something being read-only.
I didn't change anything to my fstab etc. I solved it by using the gentoo install-cd and chrooting to my gentoo-partition, and re-emerging the baselayout installed before.
It all works again now, but I'm still wondering, why on earth does Xfree4.3 depend on baselayout? _________________ Pentium 4 Prescott 3,2 GHz
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bsolar Bodhisattva
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know the dependency issue that you had, but doing --pretend always is reccommended, when emerging... _________________ I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. |
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Dessimat0r Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 102
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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You must have done etc-update, and merged all changes automatically, which messed up your config files. _________________ [img:2b429e5a71]http://dessimat0r.myftp.org/signatures/dess1.jpg[/img:2b429e5a71] |
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MadEgg l33t
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I did an -p, but I must've missed the baselayout.
And I didn't do an etc-update, that is, not for the files related to baselayout.
I just deleted all those files because I had made lots of changes to /etc/fstab /etc/inittab etc etc etc.
So all updates were removed. And I didn't even WANT to upgrade my baselayout anyway, it performed fine the way it was.
Anyway, that still doesn't explain why XFree depends on baselayout? when I do emerge -u xfree, it's supposed to only install xfree and it's dependencies, isn't it? _________________ Pentium 4 Prescott 3,2 GHz
Asus P4P800 SE, i865PE chipset
1024 MB PC3200 RAM
AOpen Aeolus GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 MB DDR2
Creative Audigy2 ZS
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dreambox Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 137
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Hello
When I tried to update Xfree 4.2 to 4.3 with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -up Xfree, indeed emerge tried to update baselayout to an unstable version. when using flag -u, emerge tries to update all dependencies, even if there isn't direct dependency between packages ( Sometimes it is useful if u don't want to update package by package ). As I was told, the best way to update a package is to not use use -u flag, especially if you update to an unstable package ( This prevents other packages that are *indirectly* dependent of ur ebuild to be updated to an unstable version, which could cause a lot of trouble )...
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MadEgg l33t
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ahh, that explains the issue.
That would work for everything as everything indirectly depends on baselayout, doesn't it?
Anyway, I'll keep that one in mind in the future _________________ Pentium 4 Prescott 3,2 GHz
Asus P4P800 SE, i865PE chipset
1024 MB PC3200 RAM
AOpen Aeolus GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 MB DDR2
Creative Audigy2 ZS
gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r7
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dreambox Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if everything depends on baselayouts, since I don't do anymore emerge -u , but i guess that many packages depend indirectly on sys-apps... |
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