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ritzmax72
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 Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:03 pm Post subject: @world update: dependency loop: xz-utils, elt-patches |
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[Administrator note: this post, and the first response, were originally attached to the sticky topic The xz package has been backdoored, but this post is a general update problem unrelated to the xz backdoor, so I split it out. The post originally had no title, so I picked one that seemed reasonable. -Hu]
Anyone know why am I getting this during world update
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(app-portage/elt-patches-20240324:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on
(app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)
(app-portage/elt-patches-20240324:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)
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Also, I have a lot of [nomerge] items on the list to be update. Never seem them show up during update. Why now?
I used the following command.
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emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --ask --backtrack=300 @world
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figueroa
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| Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 1:44 am Post subject: |
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What's the problem? It may have been a while since the last update? Try this instead:
| Code: | | emerge --update --deep --changed-use --ask @world |
The shorthand would be:
| Code: | | emerge -uDUa @world |
In other words, you probably don't need bdeps or backtrack. For regular updates, you do need changed-use.
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ritzmax72
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| figueroa wrote: | What's the problem? It may have been a while since the last update? Try this instead:
| Code: | | emerge --update --deep --changed-use --ask @world |
The shorthand would be:
| Code: | | emerge -uDUa @world |
In other words, you probably don't need bdeps or backtrack. For regular updates, you do need changed-use. |
My list is very long. What is the code to generate a url? |
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ritzmax72
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| figueroa wrote: | What's the problem? It may have been a while since the last update? Try this instead:
| Code: | | emerge --update --deep --changed-use --ask @world |
The shorthand would be:
| Code: | | emerge -uDUa @world |
In other words, you probably don't need bdeps or backtrack. For regular updates, you do need changed-use. |
Here's is my wgetpaste. Why are there so many [nomerge]? Never seen them before.
https://paste.gentoo.zip/kUXnhD1I |
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sam_
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
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logrusx
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Similar thread where Ionen has expressed the same concern:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8827864.html
As I wrote there, I find it suspicious that it happens to multiple users at the same time.
Best Regards,
Georgi |
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sam_
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't it the same user? |
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logrusx
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| sam_ wrote: | | Isn't it the same user? |
Sorry, I tend to see the cell below in the Author column... |
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ritzmax72
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| sam_ wrote: | | This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
My /var/db/pkg/ is empty. It might be because in order to allocate space for chromium to build I probably deleted it.
Is there a way to fix it? |
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ritzmax72
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| sam_ wrote: | | This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
I thought this directory contained just the downloaded packages before they gets compiled and installed. What does it contain if I am mistaken? |
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freke
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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/var/db is where portage keeps track of what is installed - I don't know if this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57911 is still valid for trying to restore/regen /var/db
Otherwise I'd backup up /etc - unpack a new stage3 and try to do either emerge -va @world or emerge -eva @world. |
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Hu
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| ritzmax72 wrote: | | sam_ wrote: | | This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
My /var/db/pkg/ is empty. It might be because in order to allocate space for chromium to build I probably deleted it.
Is there a way to fix it? |
Do you have a backup? By far the fastest solution is to restore from your most recent backup.
As an aside, on my system, /var/db/pkg, though bigger than I would have expected, is only a few hundred megabytes. For Chromium, that's almost noise level savings, so deleting it probably didn't appreciably help acquiring extra build space. | ritzmax72 wrote: | | sam_ wrote: | | This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
I thought this directory contained just the downloaded packages before they gets compiled and installed. What does it contain if I am mistaken? |
As sam_ said, it contains Portage's records of what is installed. After your deletion, Portage believes nothing is installed, so everything needs to be installed. |
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ritzmax72
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | ritzmax72 wrote: | | sam_ wrote: | | This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
My /var/db/pkg/ is empty. It might be because in order to allocate space for chromium to build I probably deleted it.
Is there a way to fix it? |
Do you have a backup? By far the fastest solution is to restore from your most recent backup.
As an aside, on my system, /var/db/pkg, though bigger than I would have expected, is only a few hundred megabytes. For Chromium, that's almost noise level savings, so deleting it probably didn't appreciably help acquiring extra build space. | ritzmax72 wrote: | | sam_ wrote: | | This looks a lot like you either lost, or corrupted, your internal package database at /var/db/pkg. |
I thought this directory contained just the downloaded packages before they gets compiled and installed. What does it contain if I am mistaken? |
As sam_ said, it contains Portage's records of what is installed. After your deletion, Portage believes nothing is installed, so everything needs to be installed. |
I have the emerge.log which has all the installed packages since 2021. Problem is due to mentioned "circular dependency" I am unable to emerge anything. Even equery is failing to give me "depends" values for packages which would be helpful.
Backing up personal documents, scripts, programs, custom libraries ( the list is huge to be honest and I will have to work a lot) and then just clean installing gentoo again seems to be only safe solution I could imagine.
Also, I had a backlog of moving from 17.1 to 23* so that would be one benefit of clean installation.
I would like to get suggestions on how to properly do it although I will looking around in other forum posts.
Should have instlalled gentoo in 500GB drive instead of 225 GB ssd |
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