On 12/10/08, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I just checked bugzilla and I bet it's this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250342
It's a problem that seems specific to the new ~arch glibc-2.9* version
and the stable portage-2.1.4* series. With either ~arch portage (2.1.6
Ben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:09:25 +0100:
Martin Herrman wrote:
thanks a lot for this link! This seems to be exactly the issue I have
(and also caused by the wish to have GCC 4.3). I will downgrade glibc
(and gcc) to have a
Martin Herrman wrote:
thanks a lot for this link! This seems to be exactly the issue I have
(and also caused by the wish to have GCC 4.3). I will downgrade glibc
(and gcc) to have a stable system again.
Except you can't downgrade glibc. It won't work. So your best bet is to
get a tarball of
Martin Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
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below, on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:05:00 +0100:
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OK, I just checked bugzilla and I bet it's this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250342
It's a problem that seems specific to the new ~arch glibc-2.9* version
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, you can, but not directly.
Surely you have an emergency boot method, either (like me) a backup root
partition that you snapshot from your working one periodically when you
know the system's working pretty smoothly (which
Martin Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
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For the moment, I have chosen the most easiest way:
sys-apps/portage
app-admin/eselect-news
app-admin/eselect
added to package.keywords.
Note that you may wish to use a
Martin Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
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below, on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:05:36 +0100:
What has happened? What to do next?
Most of those errors seem to be portage itself choking. I just did an
update here and had a python remerge due to new USE flag (2.5.2-r8, I'm
Martin Herrman wrote:
Of course (using Gentoo now for a month or so), I don't have buildpkg
in my config. So I used the manual on the URL you provided. It says
that one should emerge portage first to get a correct system first.
But when I do that, I get an error:
Yeah - once you break it you
