Upon my first Gentoo install, using the online guide, and in virtualbox OSE in Ubuntu, the kernel compilation goes well as well as the the rest until I get to the system logger part. I would like to use syslog-ng but when I emerge it I get the message in the summary followed by [code]!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: -app-text/docbook-sgml-utils0.6.14 (Change USE: +jadetex) (dependency required by "media-libs/fontconfig-2.8.0" [ebuild]) " " " "app-text/poppler-0.12.4-r3" " " " " "net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1" " " " "app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.71-r1" " " " "x11-libs/libX11-1.3.3" " " " "x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.7" "media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0" "app-doc/doxygen-1.5.8-r1" "x11-libs/libxcb-1.5"[/code] I get the same thing trying to emerge anything from there. I read somewhere that this is a bug so... here I am. Thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Fallow Gentoo install instruction at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml to point of selecting system logger. 2.emerge syslog-ng 3.watch dependencies emerge Actual Results: See description. Expected Results: Install and move on to cron daemon... I did set the kernel for ext4 and ntfs support along with usb and a few other things but nothing I can think of to cause this. Wish I could supply more info...
Sorry for the inconvenience. The issue you're seeing is not a bug. emerge asks you to change the use flag settings for app-text/docbook-sgml-utils. Namely to enable the 'jadetex' use flag for it. How to do this is covered by the handbook [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2
There's already plenty of info about how to set USE flags globally, in make.conf, and locally in package.use. Closing.
(In reply to comment #2) > There's already plenty of info about how to set USE flags globally, in > make.conf, and locally in package.use. Closing. > That's not what this bug is about. The bug is about figuring out that a use flag has to be changed from what emerge outputs. That would belong to [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap5
Thanks. I've updated the handbook to inform the users about this: """ Necessary USE Flag Changes Code Listing 5.5: Portage warning about USE flag change requirement The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by app-text/happypackage-2.0, required by happypackage (argument) >=app-text/feelings-1.0.0 test The error message might also be displayed as follows, if --autounmask isn't set: Code Listing 5.6: Portage error about USE flag change requirement emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "app-text/feelings[test]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - app-text/feelings-1.0.0 (Change USE: +test) (dependency required by "app-text/happypackage-2.0" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "happypackage" [argument]) Such warning or error occurs when you want to install a package which not only depends on another package, but also requires that that package is built with a particular USE flag (or set of USE flags). In the given example, the package app-text/feelings needs to be built with USE="test", but this USE flag is not set on the system. To resolve this, either add the requested USE flag to your global USE flags in /etc/make.conf, or set it for the specific package in /etc/portage/package.use. """ Committed in CVS, should show up on the site in an hour or so.
