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pheniks
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 Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:33 am Post subject: can't find /etc/portage directory |
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| I've finished an new installation of Gentoo (2.6.28-r5). When I tried to install mozilla-firefox, kmail en openoffice, nothing happened. Ther seemd to be a problem with cairo-1.8.6. After a bit of surfing on the net, I read somewhere this could be solved by downgrading cairo to cairo-1.8.2. So, I tried to add an entry in de package.mask file. This file didn't exist. So I wanted to check the /etc/portage directory, but there is no /etc/portage directory! Where has it gone to. Do I have to manually make the /etc/portage directory? I didn't have this problem with previous installations. Or did I make a mistake during the installation proces? All your suggestions are welcome! |
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wiz
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| I think you might have forgot to extract the portage snapshot you downloaded. It should say somewhere in the handbook where to download it and how to extract it. |
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pheniks
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| I have extracted the portage snapshot. The /usr/portage directory is where it is supposed to be. Only /etc/portage is missing. |
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V-Li
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:07 am Post subject: |
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| Just create it. |
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alex.blackbit
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:42 am Post subject: |
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what problems did you have emerging those packages?
please post the relevant output. |
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noisebleed
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| V-Li wrote: | | Just create it. |
V-Li, last time I've installed gentoo (using stage3-i686-20090514.tar.bz2), I've noticed that the /etc/portage directory was missing. I can't be sure but wasn't it available in the past? Why not included it in the present stages?
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pheniks
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Creating /etc/portage manually worked fine. But I don't understand why /etc/portage wasn't created during my last Gentoo installation, while it was during all my otherinstallations.
Thanks for the help, guys! |
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V-Li
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| If I remember correctly, all my installations in the last three years had no /etc/portage in the stages. |
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d2_racing
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:07 am Post subject: |
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In fact, I had to create it also.
My last Gentoo installation was on october 18 2008, so at that time, I had to do this, so maybe it's still normal to don't have any /etc/portage during the installation process. |
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alex.blackbit
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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even the gentoo handbook says: | Code: | | ...To accomplish this, you will need to create the /etc/portage directory (if it doesn't exist yet)... |
so, i would not assume that /etc/portage is included in the stage tarballs. |
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Captain Newbie
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| noisebleed wrote: | | V-Li wrote: | | Just create it. |
V-Li, last time I've installed gentoo (using stage3-i686-20090514.tar.bz2), I've noticed that the /etc/portage directory was missing. I can't be sure but wasn't it available in the past? Why not included it in the present stages? |
Catalyst is nuking /etc/portage when it automatically builds the stages. (yes, it's true  )
Just create the directory for now.
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Raptor85
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| d2_racing wrote: | In fact, I had to create it also.
My last Gentoo installation was on october 18 2008, so at that time, I had to do this, so maybe it's still normal to don't have any /etc/portage during the installation process. |
I've done dozens of installs since then and I can confirm that none of them have had an /etc/portage, I seem to remember it being in older snapshots though, I think around late 2007 |
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d2_racing
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So, I was not crazy  |
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Clad in Sky
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Hm.. I think I had one of those.
And I installed Gentoo about 6 to 7 times this month - can't remember creating /etc/portage
Still, no worries. Seems creating it manually doesn't do any harm.
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noisebleed
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| Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I'm currently installing Gentoo on a AMD64 (amd64 stage3) and /etc/portage is here. But it wasn't included in the stage. Most likely it was created after some emerge (emerge --sync?).
These are the contents of /etc/portage:
| Code: | # tree /etc/portage
/etc/portage/
|-- bin
| `-- post_sync
`-- postsync.d
`-- q-reinitialize
2 directories, 2 files |
Anyone knows who create this files (equery returns nothing)? Just curious.
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Raptor85
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| noisebleed wrote: | I'm currently installing Gentoo on a AMD64 (amd64 stage3) and /etc/portage is here. But it wasn't included in the stage. Most likely it was created after some emerge (emerge --sync?).
These are the contents of /etc/portage:
| Code: | # tree /etc/portage
/etc/portage/
|-- bin
| `-- post_sync
`-- postsync.d
`-- q-reinitialize
2 directories, 2 files |
Anyone knows who create this files (equery returns nothing)? Just curious. |
emerge --sync actually sounds plausible, I don't do that during my install (I'm behind a dial-up line, so I have a custom tree set up and I copy the packages off my portable drive) I'm actually getting ready to re-install my laptop (upgrading from a 10 gig to a 40 gig drive, figured might as well start from scratch, the gentoo install on it is very old) so I'll be sure to test it out |
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