-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 My recent problems upgrading packages to the testing versions have been more than a little odd. It would always end the same way - there would be files missing that had been there before I merged a package, and the loss of these files would prevent the caching of service dependencies. Thus, I could not use emerge and several other tools.
The strange part is that it happened four different times with four different packages. Three examples are texinfo, gawk and coreutils. What makes this problem more odd is that I could install those those packages, without trouble, later - with no changes on my part. I did not sync, as I was already up to date, and I did not change any options. Each time I was able to merge a package that has caused me trouble, another package, would cause the same problem. Oh, and by the way, yes I do keep an up to date backup of my entire system, and will restore it, if necessary. This is especially true when re-installing Gentoo, as I have found that, often the order of emerging things can make or break a system (I would call a system broken when you can't run emerge, many key files are missing, and the environment variables are such that you can't run anything, and when rebooting does not work, causing you to have to turn off the computer which corrupts the file system). Regards, Chris PS: I finally got everything in order, and it is working fine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFHzLysUx1jS/ORyCsRCl2UAJ9ctdAEK/YsWFxnjRTQwulBPkwd+wCeKiE2 JU07BSsGw/hfdXEw7/pSgPQ= =B3l7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
