Gentoo

[Collins]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:56:51 -0600 Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:13:11 -0400 Douglas J Hunley
> <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:
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> > Collins spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:21:04 -0700 Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > > It seems that I have the basic Gentoo installed (luv that
> > > > ADSL) next step is to get the X stuff along with XFCE and
> > > > continue on with the show.
> > >
> > > Congrats.  Sounds like you are on a roll.
> > 
> > I've had gentoo up and running for almost 2 months.. I noticed
> > that lately doing a :
> > emerge --update world
> > 
> > barfs. I get this error:
> > !!! Error: couldn't find match for virtual/glu in
> > x11-libs/qt-3.0.4.1-r1
> > 
> 
> I've seen this error before, but I can't remember the answer.  Your
> best bet is to go to http://fireserver.ath.cx/gentoo/search/ and
> search the user archives for that message.  Sometimes errors like
> this mean that you should upgrade your version of portage before
> doing aything else.
> 
> BTW, I'm your basic chicken.  I never do "emerge -u world' (same as
> 'emerge --update world').  I always do 'emerge -pu world >somefile,
> then research and issue emerge commands for each recommended
> package. Most of the time 'emerge -u world' works ok, but it can
> bite you in the rear.  Also you don't get any time forecast, so if
> world has selected a glibc update and a full gnome update and a full
> kde update, you may be in for a long wait.
> 

Some extra thoughts.  One of the reasons I never let emerge update
things automatically is that the package choice is not 100% perfect. 
Sometimes it will pick packages that are at a lower level or even
duplicates.  The whole emerge/portage process is still very much under
construction.  From time to time it is unstable, but any problems are
usually fixed within hours or days.

If you don't do updates very often, it's a good idea (as I've
mentioned above) to emerge the latest portage before doing anything
else.  Also, anything that produces updates to /etc and a few other
config type directories will create temporary files that need to be
replaced manually.  The etc-update program in the gentoolkit package
provides an automated way of doing this.  This is especially critical
if you have updated the baselayout package which updates the boot
scripts.  This is another reason for not doing the updates
automatically.  You might not see the message warning you that
temporary updates exist, although it does repeat after every
successful emerge.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla