Classic Gentoo "upgrade" [SOLVED]

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

was trying to play enemy-territory and posted my problems in another thread.Noone seems to have answers to that so I guessed I would try to update again.

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:35 pm Post subject:

I'm going to yell at you a little bit, so brace yourself.

Never run
Code:

emerge -e
on an out of date system. Update first.
If the failure says to attach a file, as in
Code:

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-2.5/work/build-x86/config.log
then it might be advisable to attach the file. There are other "post the output of..." recommendations there as well. wgetpaste is your friend.
You remembered the option wrong. It's not "--resume-skipfirst"; it's "--resume --skipfirst". Man page would've told you that.
Little 'b' blocks are those that Portage knows how to solve itself. They aren't any big deal: merely informative in nature. The emerge will not fail because of them.
You've got license updates to deal with. Read up on that and fix those issues.
You've got syntax errors in some of your /etc/portage/package.* files. Read up on that and fix those, too, while you're at it.

The long and short of it is, please clean up what you can clean up and give us what we need to help you.

Now, that said, Gentoo does tend to punish you if you go too long between updates. I think that's more of a "nature of the beast" issue and a "problem to fix", but it's definitely true. You might want to update a little more often.

- John
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earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

Thank you.
How do I update if not with emerge -e system ?

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:52 pm Post subject:

--emptytree (short form -e) isn't for updating at all. It's for recompiling everything. The only time it's necessary is if you got a shiny new compiler version and/or have discovered new CFLAGS to try out and believe that you'll benefit from recompiling all of your packages with the new compiler and/or CFLAGS. To just update those things that are out of date, use --update (short for -u). There are several additional nuances to updating that have their own command line options. Here are some of them:

--deep (short for -D) forces a (usually unnecessary deep dependency analysis.
--newuse (short for -N) will recompile any package for which the USE flags have changes since it was last compiled.
--with-bdeps=y (no short form) will update out of date packages that are on your system only because they're needed to build a package that you explicitly wanted.

There are other nuances. The emerge and portage man pages are your friends. :wink:

A good old standard rule of thumb update command is

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:04 pm Post subject:

Do this one, too, please:

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

This is the 2nd day of my update.Thats why I tend to update seldom.I simply don't have time to update more often as I have 3 other boxes and as strangely as that sounds I installed Gentoo to use it ,not to update and fix it.I have a policy of updating the other boxes,and checking wether they have some problems,before I update this main box.1 of them has AMD64 and all updates went without problems.

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

vomit earthy # wgetpaste /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-2.5/temp/build.log
Your paste can be seen here: http://bpaste.net/show/35451/

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject:

This pastebin is truncated. Can you look at the pastebin, look at the actual build log on your system, and see if they match? If the do, then rebuild sandbox, like so

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

They matched so I am doing as suggested

Thistled · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland

Hey earthy

You will lose the complaint about invalid atom

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:04 pm Post subject:

The important lines from the build log are:

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

@John R. Graham

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject:

How's your

earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

6 of 17

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject:

That should include an update to sandbox-2.6. We'll see if the problem persists with that new version.

- John
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earthy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 147

It is finished but did not update sandbox.I am not a cat so I don't need a sandbox

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http://bpaste.net/show/35466/
Seems like system works fully,I will close thread tomorrow if noone objects to that.