Johan, emerge XXXX is the command that executes an ebuild, which is responsible for downloading, compiling, and installing a program on to the system.
emerge sync command makes your 'portage tree' on your computer, which is where the ebuilds are stored, match the official Gentoo portage tree. The error you are seeing 'Temporary failure in name resolution' is usually the result of not copying '/etc/resolv.conf' from the LiveCD environment into the chroot environment or /etc/resolv.conf does not contain valid DNS servers or it they are not reachable. Steve On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:28, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Hi, > I am a novice on Gentoo - I played around with Mandrake 9.0 which seems > user(novices) friendly - > BUT I would like to try out and learn some linux ropes - problem if > something goes wrong I have no idea what to do. > > I have a standalone PC - not connected to another PC - have a modem internet > dialup connected. > I have a Celeron 600 mhz processor > 256 mb ram > 1,7 Gig HD for the porposes of testing Gentoo - other Hd's safely out of the > way. > > I have downloaded Gentoo linux version 1.4rc2 live cd i686. It seem to have > all the > files up to stage3 and packages. > I am using Gentoo linux documentation - Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc2 Installation > instructions. > All goes well up to Code Listing 9.3 > chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash > Kindly see the rest as being send to the screen..... > > The following is obtained by redirection of standard output................ > command .. env-update = > > >>> Note: /etc/make.profile isn't available; an 'emerge sync' will probably > fix this. > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > ********************************* > > command .. emerge sync = > > >>> Note: /etc/make.profile isn't available; an 'emerge sync' will probably > fix this. > > >>> starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... > > rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Temporary failure in name > resolution > > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97) > > ****************************************** > > What does the command - emerge xxxx - do/means ?? > > The /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 link exist > and pointing to non-existend directory. > > Trust that somebody may have some time to help me > > Thanks in advance > > Johan > > > > > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 25/02/2003 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
