On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the
> occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install
> manual. But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose.
> Appended output from...
>
> emerge -p --changed-use -deep --update @world > /dev/shm/log.txt 2>&1
>
>I've bzipped the output for attachment... yes it's *THAT* bad.
>
You seem to be missing a dash on --deep, which has the unfortunate
consequence of being parsed as -d -e -e -p instead. -d enables debug
mode (hence the ludicrously long output), and -e is short for
--emptytree which is almost certainly not what you wanted to do here.
Try --deep instead.
Cal
