On Sunday, 11 April 2021 11:33:22 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/ > > > gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > > > and that works too. Then I leave the profile at the default vanilla > > > amd64 and emerge-webrsync. So far so good. Then when I try emerge > > > -uaDvN @world I get a circular dependency involving elt-patches and > > > xz-utils. No amount of unsetting of USE flags makes any difference. Nor > > > does --excluding one of them, because portage just refuses to do that. > > > > Try omitting -D and -N to reduce the number of packages being rebuilt. If > > that doesn't help, post the output here. > > I think I must have had a bad stage tarball. At any rate, that problem > doesn't occur now. Instead I get various ruby packages failing because they > can't find the gems directory, or some other problem. > > There was once a news item about ruby-30, but I don't see it any more. At > the time I added this: > > # cat /etc/portage/package.use/ruby > dev-ruby/* ruby_targets_ruby30 > virtual/rubygems ruby_targets_ruby30 > virtual/ruby-ssl ruby_targets_ruby30 > > That worked nicely, but not on a new system. I've tried changing the 20 to > 27 and I've tried removing the file, but neither helps. Eselecting ruby > versions doesn't either.
Typo: 30, not 20. -- Regards, Peter.