Hi Gentoo! ##I am ssh into a livecd install on a PII 400 whitebox from a PII 400 MEPIS ##notebook. ##I am trying to install, not upgrade. I am at code listing 18 and the install ##is getting whiny. The prompts from the install contradict the handbook. ##Previously I did: "# scripts/bootstrap.sh" ##Almost a day later I see: ">> No outdated packages were found on your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Please note that you should now add the '-e' option for emerge system: * # emerge -e system livecd portage # " ##But the next step in the instructions is: # emerge --pretend --emptytree system | less ##NO "-e"! ##Now what? The prompts from the install contradict the instructions from the ##handbook! ##Should it be "# emerge -e --pretend --emptytree system | less" and "# emerge ##-e" whenever the emerge is used from now on? ##I asked this locally, reply follows: ###-e is the same as --emptytree ###I'm puzzled as to why it suggests emerging the system with the empty tree ###flag, I've never had to in the past. ###-e or --emptytree just rebuild EVERYTHING, in the case of the first ###emerge system, it will rebuild what was built in bootstrap and build ###everything in system that has not been built yet. ###Normally I just use "emerge -v system" after the bootstrap. ###-p or --pretend just shows you what it would do. ##So i did this; emerge -v system and got the following error: "Operating system: i686-whatever-linux2 You need Perl 5. !!! ERROR: dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 146, Exitcode 1 !!! config failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. livecd portage #" ## but I *have* perl 5! Nevertheless I try to follow the on screen ##instructions, these are: upgrade do the following steps: # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' # cd /etc/ # rm make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 make.profile # Gentoo has switched to 2.6 as the defaults for headers/kernels. If you wish # to use 2.4 headers/kernels, then you should do the following to upgrade: # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' # cd /etc/ # rm make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile # More information can be found at the following URLs: # http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml # http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! 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Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: default-linux/x86/2005.0 To upgrade do the following steps: # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' # cd /etc/ # rm make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 make.profile # Gentoo has switched to 2.6 as the defaults for headers/kernels. If you wish # to use 2.4 headers/kernels, then you should do the following to upgrade: # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' # cd /etc/ # rm make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile # More information can be found at the following URLs: # http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml # http://www.gentoo.org/doc/UN/migration-to-2.6.xml Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 40 info files. livecd / # cd /etc/ livecd etc # rm make.profile livecd etc # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 make.profile livecd etc # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 make.profile livecd etc # [ebuild N ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e -debug -emacs (-uclibc) 0 bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' livecd etc # [ebuild N ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e -debug -emacs -uclibc 0 bash: [ebuild: command not found livecd etc # merge dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e -debug -emacs -uclibc 0 bash: merge: command not found livecd etc # emerge dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e -debug -emacs -uclibc 0 *** Warning: Redundant use of --emptytree !!! Error: -m is an invalid short action or option. livecd etc # emerge dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e -debug -uclibc 0 *** Warning: Redundant use of --update *** Warning: Redundant use of --buildpkg *** Warning: Redundant use of --clean !!! Multiple actions requested... Please choose one only. !!! '--clean' or '--inject' livecd etc # ##Somehow, this isn't working. I looked around on those two websites but none ##of it looked like what I am seeing. The second one is a dead link, or was ##dead when I tried it. I don't think I asked for clean or inject? Huh?? Regards, Pete Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: error messages, after I copy pasted the command exactly. Expected Results: Gee, it would be nice if it had gone on with the install. As my local guru (who has never seen this) says "it updates everything on the first emerge sync anyway". Well, I am ssh into the whitebox from the notebook. On the notebook I have the firefox browser with the handbook open, xterm shell with the ssh and kmail to pass the shell copies to my guru guy when I get stuck. Now we are both stuck. The whitebox itself is running only the livecd and its side of ssh (sshd) as far as I know. At this stage of the install it couldn't run much more. Or could it. I am online with dsl, verizon.
Wow... that's really a pain to read with all the # everywhere... Anyway, -e is the short option for --emptytree. Follow the handbook and do not deviate from it, and you cannot go wrong.
