can't emerge system (it's in the guide on the net)

[robinmdh]

i'm having trouble emerging anything with portage under mac osx (10.4.2)
first off a whole bunch of packages hve been masked (becouse they'r already in OS X),
but they'r not in portage so when i try to emerge system it's a big nono(it want's to emerge masked packages), i thought of inserting a stub into portage(emerge -i) to make it think it's aready installed the software but that hits a snag too (sed: lstat: No such file or directory)

over here it just says to set the profile right and then run emerge system...

hope some1 can help

Robin

[robinmdh]

[spankmygentoo]

I get this when I try to "emerge system."

>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.22-r3/image/

* checking 141 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cvstree.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/getbinpkg.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_cpickle.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_flat.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_template.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_dep.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exception.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_file.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_gpg.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_localization.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.pyo is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.pyo is not owned by this package
* spend 0.182201862335 seconds checking for file collisions
* This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite
* files belonging to other packages (see messages above).
* If you have no clue what this is all about report it
* as a bug for this package on https://bugs.gentoo.org

package sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22-r3 NOT merged

No package files given... Grabbing a set.
joseph-barneys-ibook-g4:/etc/make.profile root#

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Is there something I am missing here? I followed the directions and it's not working. I don't have X11 installed yet. Would that make a difference? Thanks!
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[Strukt]

Hi,

i got the same error message as spankmygentoo:

[robinp]

From memory this is a problem when first installing portage because the portage update doesn't recognise the version of portage that was installed throught the MacOS X gentoo installer package.

To correct this - temporarily turn collision protection off to let it overwrite the older version of portage.

From then on - it should be ok.

Hope this helps

[Cenrim]

for turning the collision protection off for one run of emerge you gotta do:

[paperp]

Trying to emerge system I got this message on a powerbook 5,8 -10.4.3

[Lindsey]

Cenrim, I had exactly the same problem as spankmygentoo and Strukt, and that fixed it. Thanks.