multilib/systemd/gnome usr merge won't emerge

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Hello everyone,

I'm new to getnoo ...

I guess those 1st 2 lines are pretty common here

I tried to emerge @world several times, but no joy. I even emerged @world with an -empty-tree flag, but still I get another error. both are actually because the needed binary is missing from the /bin directory. I think portage is missing something about the new file hierarchy after the merge.

This is the error message;

[sabayonino]

Hi

/bin/ln is provided by coreutils package

[NeddySeagoon]

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Welcome to Gentoo.
We were all new once.

Which stage3 did you use in your install?
Your selected profile is

[Ionen]

Did you lose your /bin -> usr/bin symlink somehow? It should be present on all merged usr systems (same for lib/lib64/sbin), unless migration hasn't been done properly (e.g. using merged-usr profile without merging usr first) or something else unexpected went wrong (whole thing is kinda new and aimed at testers until news are published). If it's a new install, should use the right stage3 as noted above.

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Thank you for the replies everyone, and thank you for the welcome NeddySeagoon!

Yes I agree with you sabayonino, I've been a debian user for 14 yesrs, and I'm aware the binary comes from coreutils, but portage somehow didn't update the $PATH, and the ld.cache so the compiler would find everything it needs while working.

I checked on whether the file was there, and it was, but on /usr.

I also wanted to mention that part of the systemd build log with the final error message;

[NeddySeagoon]

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Thank you for the advice and the link NeddySeagoon!

It's strange there's a different stage for merge usr now, I didn't find one for that release I have ...

I tried the script however and it seems to have worked, but not the USE flag alone.

I still can't confirm the whole installation is a success, I still to install gnome, will follow up with details.

Can I ask about gcc optimization flags in here or should I start another thread?

Also another thing, I'm used to brewing my own packages on debian, and was wondering if you could point out resources for me to do the same with gentoo ...

Thank you!

[NeddySeagoon]

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The autobuilds used for installs are updated approximately weekly. Gentoo is a rolling release. You need to roll with it.
Changes (updiates) are published every 30 minutes but monthly updates for a testing system or quarterly for a stable system are mostly OK.
If you don't keep up to date, after a year or more, you will learn things about gentoo that you can lean no other way.

Unlike Debian, Gentoo is not a distro. Its a toolkit you use to design and install you own distro. Gentoo is the ::gentoo ebuild repository and the portage package manager. Everything else is ${UPSTREAM}.

The Gentoo way of rolling your own, is with ebuilds and USE flags. Many are provided. Overlays provide many more.
You can start your own overlay, either on your local system is publish it for others to use.
If there is an ebuild that does almost, but not quite what you want, change it. Some overlays are listed but there are many more.
Quality and bit rot varies.

You can use the traditional manual build technique too but take great care that everything installed that way is installed to /usr/local and not the main filesystem which is owned and managed by portage. Portage will not install a package that creates a file name 'collision'. A manual

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NeddySeagoon, thanks man, I appreciate it!