Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone advise me which iso to use? And which profile to set for general use in a vbox, hopefully to allow a `no sweat' emerge to a full OS. As others have pointed out you probably just need to update your gcc and all

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Harry, Long time, no see! On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:41:48AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: And a note to everybody else on the list: take it easy on the poor guy. People used to other distros are used to doing things like blowing away their installs every other year with a fresh install. Release-based distros get people

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/08/2015 15:17, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Harry, Long time, no see! On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:19:42PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so many blocks, use flag

[gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-23 Thread Harry Putnam
My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so many blocks, use flag changes and a variety of other bad news in such proliferation... I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-23 Thread Jc García
2015-08-23 20:19 GMT-06:00 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com: My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. Why so much overhead for compiling, and not doing it bare-metal? It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After eix-sync, attempting