How do i update what "emerge system" does

pedrux · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Boston, Mass

Hi all,

Do i have any control over what "emerge system" does?

When i do an "emerge -p system" it gives me a list ebuild that i do not have and the firrst one is sys-apps/file-4.02 and i know for sure that they are at file-4.06 by now. So, how do i update this?

I've tried "emerge regen" but i still got that same file-4.02 afterwards. The problem is that if i do an "emerge system" as is it gives me an error which says that file-4.02 cannot be found. That's why i want to update it somehow so that it picks file-4.06 instead.

Thanks for your help.

Pedro

jat850 · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Canada

Have you tried an "emerge sync"?

gren · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:30 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure why you'd be getting an error message, but try doing an "emerge sync".

You might find the Portage User Guide helpful.

GentooBox · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1168 Location: Denmark

Thats because you chose the stable tree.

if you want to run the unstable tree, then you have to edit your /etc/make.conf file.

find the line that says:

pedrux · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Boston, Mass

Thank you all for responding.

Yes i did an "emerge sync" prior but "emerge -p system" was still looking for file-4.02.

I changed to using the unstable portage, as one of you suggested, and it's working now (or should i say, so far).

Thanks again,

Pedro

pedrux · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Boston, Mass

Ok guys.

Now that i've changed ACCEPT_KEYWORD to ~x86 to avoid having "emerge system" looking for file-4.02 it works for a while and then stops with another error that it could not find protector-3.3-4.tar.gz.

I'm running emerge -u system

Any hints?

Thanks,

Pedro

ikshaar · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject:

Unless you REALLY know what you do, you should not run with ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86" as default, because it will try to emerge all the unstable version of each package....

If you want to try just one unstable package (eg. file), do :

pedrux · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Boston, Mass

...and if i use just "emerge system" (with ACCEPT_KEYWORD set to ~x86) then it can't find util-linux-2.12.tar.gz.

In brief:
ACCEPT_KEYWORD not set in make.conf
- emerge system --- error: cannot find file-4.02
- emerge -u system --- error: cannot find file-4.02

ACCEPT_KEYWORD set to ~x86
- emerge system --- error: cannot find util-linux-2.12.tar.gz
- emerge -u system --- error: cannot find protector-3.3-4.tar.gz

How do i get out of this vicious circle?

Thank you for your help.

Pedro

ikshaar · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject:

The "cannot find file" errors sound to me more like there is problem with your distfiles directory. Did you check that you have space left on device ?
If you do, try :

pedrux · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Boston, Mass

Thanks ikshaar,

At the moment i'm trying your previous suggestion, i.e. i'm running:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge file
This has been going for about 20 mins now.

I don't think that it's a space issue since i have something like 40G on my harddrive. But when i get the error cannot find file-4.02 at location blah i actually can go at that location and confirm that this file is not there. The files that i can see are file-4.05 and file-4.06. This is why i think it's probably because i need to upgrade my system somehow, hence the use of -u. but then i pass the file-4.02 problem only to hit another one. It seems like i'm stuck in this cycle...

Oops my ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge file just failed with the error: Couldn't not download protector-3.3-4.tar.gz (same as before). I'd appreciate if you can help me out.

I've been at it for more than a week now with no luck. My last resort would be to reformat the whole thing and restart from scratch but i'm hoping someone can sort me out from this stage.

Thank you for your help.

Pedro

tdombrow · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Texas

I've found that switching to a different distfile mirror improves my chances of locating files. Usually the best mirrors are gatech and oregon state, but the following usually does the trick.

Run

ikshaar · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject:

Well I just downloaded the file-4.02.tar.gz from a mirror, so perhaps as said tdombrow you have a problem with your mirror... and by the way 4.02 is the stable version, so do you really need 4.06 ?

Otherwise just put here the whole output of

pedrux · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Boston, Mass

Yes i do want the stable version. I only went unstable because i could not find file-4.02. However, i've changed my mirror, as suggested, and so far(it's been more than an hour now) it's looking good :lol:

Thank you all for your help. Hope it works this time.

Pedro