On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like you got to a working state - unorthodox method, but it does seem to have worked :-)
<snip> > But now that blockage is solved... I'm getting a failure in the > dependancy gpm when I try to emerge -vu portage. > > I've included that failure message at the end. Right now I think > I'll try with --nodeps and if portage installs ok... I'll try > emerging and building a more recent kernel and see if is still boots. > ==================================================================== > emerge -vu portage ends with this faiure while emerging dependancies: > > unpack gpm-1.20.3.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring. There was a post earlier today about this very thing. Check today's inbox for more details. Apparently you need a very recent portage to use this feature, so I would suggest you fully resolve the bash/portage thing first before trying to emerge world -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list

