... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? Hi list,
as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work (started ``emerge --emptytree system'' in the morning). When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 python-fcksum-1.7.1 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc ....bla...bla ^ | +- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gcc-config error: could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc" My architecture is i686 and it seems that 27 packages before python-fchksum found the i686(that's SIX-eight-six)-pc-linux-gnu-gcc. Could be my fault. I had set up ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to "~x86". Today in the morning I started up from scratch. That's about an hour of editing files, making file systems and so on, 1,5 hours of bootstrap.sh. ``emerge -p --emptytree system'' showed me, that it will install python-fchksum with the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" too. So far, so good. Yesterday I got a portage snapshot 20050907, today I got a portage snapshot 20050908. Maybe the bug is fixed. So I started emerge system. At least it didn't install two versions of gcc. That saved some time. It ran 2,5 hours and ... ... kabooooom ... Unfortunately I can't tell you if the python-fchksum failure has gone away. I didn't reach this ebuild :( automake-1.25-r3 autoconf-2.58 or better is required That's package 24 of 186 (or so). Why the hell do we try to install x versions of autoconf and automake????? So my presumption for the time demand of a Gentoo installation looks like this. A breakage will occure every 15'th package (2 breakages during the first 30 within 2 days). That makes 15 days for a package amount something below 200. (BTW that's the time it took me to build a full featured LFS system.) New bugs will occur (I'm seeing this on this list "emerge -u world" broke this_and_tahat_or_something_else posts, and that for I left gentoo a year ago.). If bugs are removed twice as quick as new ones arise I'll need about ONE MONTH (!!!!!!!!) to get a running system. This "breaks" even the time demand of installation AND configuration of a 4 node IBM AIX HCMP cluster! So which distribution would you suggest me to install during less than 4 days? I'm wondering about Slackware. I've set up my USE flags to everything I'll want from the final system. There is a DVD burner so I included everything regarding to CD/DVD, all af the audio and video codecs, disabled kde and gnome (I'll never use this), enabled emacs (my favorite editor), bash-completion, xaw3d, all of the image formats and xinerama, disabled emboss (I don't have a clue why THIS is a default). There is a sound card so I enabled all audio related flags. I plan to install Oracle 9i on this machine, thus I enabled oracle. Should I start to only disable the things I won't need for the ``emerge --emptytree sysrem'' and re-edit the USE flags afterward? Hmmm... this probably doesn't solve the automake problem and disabling python to solve the python-fchksum problem IMHO isn't a good idea because emerge and thus gentoo itself is python based. I'd be glad for every hint. Waiting for fixage isn't an option. Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
