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CaptainPinko
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 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 6:54 am Post subject: emerges fail. problem with portage |
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i'm trying to install gentoo for the firsttime on my p4 2.6 ghz w/ 1 gig ram computer. i started with a recent image (no more than a month 1.4rc3 i believe) and used a stage 1 tarball. before i managed to bootstrap but got problems during "emerge system." i used to get "cpp fail sanity check" when it tried to emerge "ncurses" so i "emerge --nodeps portage" now the emerge halted on "autoconf" giving me some message that the makefiles were recursive. so i "emerge -u system" and tried emerge some of those manually and some of them worked (mostly those with no dependecies). A lot of them also gave me gave me an error like "skipping file *** as it was replaced while being copied" which apparently causes the emerge to fail. the most disturbing was when the package autoconf couldn't be emerged on its own but was emerged (sorta)successfully as a dependency for another package (gzip i believe). tho i later got an saying i should check whether autoconf was actually installed. i then again attempted to emerge autoconf manually but again it failed. i don't believe i have made any modifications to accept unstable packages. if there is any further info that would be helpful to identify my problem just mention it and i'll post it. any adivce or suggestions are welcome. thanks in advance. [/b]
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pYrania
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hum. could you try this with 1.4_rc4 by any chance?
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CaptainPinko
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well i suppose i could but should this make a difference when using a stage 1 tarball? afterall everything is downloaded off the net and wasn't there a recent article about why release versions don't really matter? could this be the cause of using a wrong flag in the make.conf?
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Deathwing00
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| CaptainPinko wrote: | | well i suppose i could but should this make a difference when using a stage 1 tarball? afterall everything is downloaded off the net and wasn't there a recent article about why release versions don't really matter? could this be the cause of using a wrong flag in the make.conf? |
Hope doesn't matter if I get into this but it seems more a flags problem rather than anything else to me... perhaps I'm wrong but check that you are not using pentium-4 in flags as it is buggy. Also pentium-3 sometimes fails... the most safe is to use i686... just in case.  |
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