Prefixed Portage

tallest · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject: Prefixed Portage

All right, I've in the process of trying to install a prefixed portage in OS X on a MacBook Pro using the instructions found here (The wiki entry is outdated and does not work) and I thought I would start a thread where anyone could post questions and I can list some problems that I have run into and (hopefully) their solutions.

(1) The first problem I ran into was when I was emerging system, specifically I was emerging dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 and I was running into a problem where it tried to install several packages outside of the prefix. I don't have the specific error (sorry) but it was something like "... is outside of prefix". I discovered that this was due to the ebuild trying to install python-fchksum using the wrong python, specifically:

tallest · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject:

(3) I ran into more problems when I tried to emerge subversion. The error looks something like this:

systm · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:38 am Post subject:

Personally, its taking a really long time to emerge portage the first time. I started it @ 8:30, its now 8:38, and its stil not finished.

How long did it take you tallest?
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tallest · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:34 am Post subject:

I don't think it should take that long, I can recompile it in a minute or so. Is portage the only thing you're emerging or did it have dependencies? Is it progressing through those dependencies? Did you set any use flags before emerging portage?
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systm · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:36 am Post subject:

I'm following exactly what it says to do in the "www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap.xml" page, yet it just sits there

idk whats up with it, what version of OSX are you on?

im X.4.8 (10.4.

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tallest · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject:

I'm on 10.4.7 because 10.4.8 breaks matlab's X support. But I don't think that should make a difference here. Is it still going? What is it doing? What kind of output are you seeing? I really can't help without something more than "it just sits there".
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systm · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:01 am Post subject:

its probably linked to 10.4.8, cause If it worked on 10.4.7, then its probably that, or that i have fink installed >.<

I'll post an out put a little bit later
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tallest · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:36 am Post subject:

What makes you think that it's 10.4.8? What exactly is going wrong? What is being emerged? Is there an error?
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systm · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject:

This is what its doing...
Calculating dependencies ... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.1.20.4755 to /
* prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 size ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking ebuild checksums ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 ;-)

... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking prefix-portage-2.1.20.4755.tar.bz2 to /Library/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.20.4755/work
Adjusting to prefix ...
5portage.envd ...

not really sure whats going on, I started it @ 10:21pm, went to sleep, woke up for work and it was sitting there @ 3:50am, with procs going at 80/80 (this is my macbook)

When I get a chance, I'll try it on my Mac Athlon64 to see if I can get any other answers.
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tallest · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

OK, it's been a couple of weeks and I thought I'd update my progress.

At some point, I broke my prefix and ended up deleting the whole thing and starting from scratch. This didn't fix the problem (I can't remember exactly what wasn't working, but I think it was ar). Anyway, I waited a week or so before I checked back at the portage-prefix documentation, lo and behold it has been updated and the new instructions seem to be much more stable than the old ones.

I still ran into one or two problems:

(1*) [etc-update] Everything went well through the svn checkout of the portage tree. I tried doing an etc-update at that point only to find that etc-update was not in my path. I fixed this by adding /Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/bin to the end of my path. Once this was fixed, I was still running into problems with etc-update:

tallest · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject:

It's starting to seem like I'm just talking to myself here, but I thought I would report that I successfully compiled gcc-4.2_alpha20061031 using prefixed portage. (gmp required me to put CHOST=none-apple-darwin in make.conf instead of CHOST=i686-apple-darwin8 due to a problem with Apple's assembly syntax)

Overall, I am very pleased with prefixed portage and it seems to be a decent replacement for darwinports or fink (if you can get all the packages you want to compile) but it's definitely not for the faint of heart and I would imagine that you're going to run into one or two problems following the prefixed-portage documentation. That's why I created this thread and I hope I can encourage more people to try it out.

NOTE: If you are going to try it out, I'd recommend doing everything as your normal user, and not as root (unless you have security reasons for needing the Gentoo prefix to be owned by root), this should make it impossible for you to screw up your OS X install. If anything goes wrong, just >rm -rf /Library/Gentoo and everything should be back to normal. On this note, I'd also recommend trying to change as little as possible in any of OS X's personal files (i.e. in /etc/) as it can be kind of picky about this stuff and it will probably get overwritten sooner or later.
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icyrus · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

Thanks for posting your experiences. I installed portage today on my macbook pro and I am having a few issues.

Trying to emerge vim results in the following:

Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "vim" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- app-editors/vim-7.0.17 (masked by: missing keyword)
- app-editors/vim-6.4 (masked by: missing keyword)
- app-editors/vim-7.0.146 (masked by: missing keyword)

Which is caused by the ebuilds have x86 or ~x86 as their keywords.

The standard keywords in my make.conf are ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-macos x86-macos"

I was wondering what you have in your make.conf? Do you just put x86 and ~x86 at the end of your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS or is there good reason not to do this?

Thanks for the help.

Edit: I'm starting to think that prefixed portage is not worth the effort at the moment if packages like apache aren't even in the tree.

tallest · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

In general I think it's better to put

grobian · Developer Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 67

WHY WHY WHY don't you guys don't contact me! Weeeeeee!

That GCC 4.2 compiles is GREAT. REALLY GREAT! And I can easily update the documentation! I need the feedback!

(ultimate frustration that I just find out now more people are trying it out)

You probably aren't mailing lists persons, but I strongly encourage you to subscribe to gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org as all "prefix" related discussions take place there, with messages posted about special OSX support and stuff.

You are not alone, others are using it on their Macs too (like me), and I can use all the feedback I can get!

I hope you didn't give up on it yet.
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tallest · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject:

Excellent, thank you very much. I've just finished subscribing to the mailing list and I'll start posting my problems and solutions there.

Thanks,
Aaron
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grobian · Developer Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 67

Thanks! I just uploaded a new portage snapshot, to be available soon.
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systm · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

what do I use to read the mailing list, not mail.app right?
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grobian · Developer Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 67

You can read the history online, e.g. here:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt

And you can subscribe yourself to the list (also with Mail.app) by following the directions for the gentoo-alt mailing list found here:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
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systm · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the awesomely quick reply man
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systm · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

So I've started the Install of prefix agian, but it seems that my shit is messed again, now I'm down to emerge -e system, but its telling me that there
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1".

So, im not sure what to do now, but wait for a response

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grobian · Developer Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 67

feel like you don't have an up-to-date tree and/or bootstrap script. Are you sure you started from scratch (clean directory) and with the latest (fresh download) bootstrap script?
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systm · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject:

I know that it was the freshest scrip, but IDK if it was clean DIR,
going to go redo now

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darkn0th · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:40 am Post subject:

Well I gave the prefixed portage a spin on my hackintosh (10.4.8 with a 10.4.4 kernel) and it appears to be broken, with perl detection no longer working which prevents wget and portage from being bootstrapped:

for wget :

Valkura · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:

I don't know perl or python very well, but last I checked... perl != python, and I doubt they are the same package.

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darkn0th · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:17 am Post subject:

true, and this error doesn't appear to be my original one. I didn't post after redoing the whole lot, nor did I read it all over. So where's a fresh attempt :

I did the full tree, wget (failed, sed, python, portage procedure and portage *does* bork on perl: