From stage 3 I tried to install vcron and metalog by "emerge -u vcron metalog". Within this process, coreutils would also get updated but fails due to a dependency problem. Portage does not emerge autoconf-1.7.6 or later beforehand to resolve DEPEND="... >=sys-devel/automake-1.7.6 ..." workaround: manually emerge -u "autoconf" such that it is at least 1.7.6 fee:~ # chroot /root/gentoo/ /bin/bash bash-2.05b# emerge --info Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031212-r0, 2.4.21-99-default) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-99-default i686 VIA Samuel 2 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i586 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i586 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/share/ch/thiam/ebuilds" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X Xaw3d apm arts avi chasen cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga dnd doc dom dv dvd encode fbcon flash foomaticdb freewnn gd gdbm gif ginac gmttria gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml ilcms imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 irmc j-noaim j-nojud j-nomsn j-nomuconf j-noyahoo java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg junit kakasi kde libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska md5sum mikmod milter mmx motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mpeg music ncurses nls nocardbus nocstrike nodod nophysfs notfc oav offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pdflib perl pic plotutils png ppds python qt qtmt quicktime readline sasl sdl slang slp socks5 speex spell src sse ssl svga tcpd tetex threads tiff transcode truetype type1 uml usb vim-with-x x86 xface xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xvid zlib"
autoconf and automake are two different packages. I am unclear as to which one of them you're referring to.
workaround should read: manually emerge -u "automake" such that it is at least 1.7.6 sorry
Can you expand on 'coreutils would also get updated but fails due to a dependency problem' ? This could mean that portage borks saying it could not resolve deps, or it could mean the coreutils build break saying it needs a newer automake? Thanks.
I try to say that made a fresh install (clean disk and everything) and used a stage3 tarball. As described in the install howto, I emerged a logger and a cron, metalog and vcron in my case. But I did not plainly emerge it as described in the howto but emerged -u. The result of this was that portage tried to emerge (among other packages) a new version of coreutils but in the configure (?) process where the package itself checks whether various conditions are met, the configure process stopped having encountered that automake was only in version 1.7.5 available but it needed 1.7.6. As far as I remeber, I checked the respective coreutils package and it stated automake 1.7.6 as dependecy, but I am not sure. I was thinking that portage was the trouble maker. My guess was that portage didn't resolve the dependency correctly but continued until the configure job stopped it. Sorry for having included too little info.
Seemant, as coreutils is your baby, can you get to changing DEPEND ?
Az, coreutils-5.0.91* all have automake-1.7.6 as a dependency so I dunno what the story is here :/
Could this be related to bug # 41944? Basically, it looks like 5.0.91.tar.bz2 isn't available for download. This will REALLY affect a new install.
no, it's available for download, that's not the issue.
well, the DEPEND is explicit in coreutils-5.0.91 and up, so I dunno why this happened for you. re-open if it remains an issue
