Bug 148301 – LiveCD GRP installation doesn't add installed packages in 'world'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Costas Koulierakis 2006-09-20 01:00:44 UTC]

After a LiveCD (2006.1 LiveDVD actually) GRP installation, installed packages that do not belong in 'system' are not added in 'world' (e.g. gnome-base, gnome-common etc). 

As a result, they are never going to get updated.

'emerge --depclean' tries to unmerge almost half of the installed packages (approximately 250 out of 500).

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-20 06:42:07 UTC]

Bleh... assigned that wrong...

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-09-20 07:23:34 UTC]

This is a known issue that will be fixed shortly. It's actually an issue with the x86/amd64 Live CD/DVDs, not the installer. We're currently working on getting fixed ISOs out the door.

[Comment 3 Costas Koulierakis 2006-09-20 09:00:35 UTC]

Is there a work-around for us unlucky guys? Whatever I've read and tried (e.g. regenworld, emerge -e world) I can't get a decent 'world' file.. :(

I've reached to the point where a fresh Minimal Install appears to be the only option!

[Comment 4 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-09-20 09:10:09 UTC]

Until the new ISOs are up (should be really soon), the only workaround is to edit /etc/make.conf on the LiveCD after it's booted and remove the PORTDIR_OVERLAY line before running the installer.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-25 14:17:49 UTC]

This is now fixed on the ISO images on the mirrors.  If you want to check if
the mirror has the updated ISO, look at the .DIGESTS file.  The MD5 for the
good iso is: f46c9bcadea4944396f6ecdd7dbf283c