bootstrap fails because can't find portage ebuilds

Neckox · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 8

hi, i'm tryng to install a new gentoo box, but when i'm going to do the bootstrap, (when sync finished ok) i't keep complainnig beacuse can't find ">=sys-apss/portage-2.0.25". When i look to the ebuils, there are two, 2.0.50 & 2.0.51-rc1 ebuilds for portage...

but the script says it can't find any mask or unmask ebuild for portage.

i try even untouch make.conf to avoid any self mystake.

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infamousmrsatan · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:46 am Post subject:

have you tried updating portage?

(If you're unable to boot, you'll first have to boot from a LiveCD and chroot onto your system)

Try updating portage. It should theoretically also update the shellscript. (I don't know this for sure though)

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infamousmrsatan · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:49 am Post subject:

to update portage try:

emerge -upvD portage

and see what it says. If it looks ok to you, type:

emerge -uD portage

if it says that it can't find any masked or unmasked packages, try replacing "portage" with the full directory path to the ebuild in your portage tree.

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Neckox · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 8

Hi infamousmrsatan

Well, i do the emerge -upvD and it says will take 49 packages before portage.
and begun to compile ok the first packages.

but is secure doing this way and skip the bootstrap script??
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Yak · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 107

How old is your livecd/ stage1?
If its older, you probably need to get a new stage1 file (to start with a newer version of portage) to fix this..

Have a look at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=139843&highlight=bootstrap and see if anything looks familiar.

oh, and you definitely don't want to do emerge -uD portage before you have bootstrapped (compiled your own glibc/gcc etc.) That would mean compiling those 49 dependencies with the basic compiler included on the livecd.. not likely to succeed, and if it did i'm thinking those packages wouldn't be optimized. You could try

infamousmrsatan · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject: