Gentoo install and 'world' updating

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:57:14 -0800 (PST)
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:

> I'm in the midst of a gentoo install (my first time) and I'm trying
> to learn the ins and outs of 'emerge' among other things.
> 
> For one thing, I've had to emerge several things not listed in
> the installation guide, and while that has worked, I'm not sure
> the 'merge' part of it has worked.  Shouldn't those things now
> be listed in /var/cache/edb/world?  I see about half of them,
> but not all.  Plus, is there a quick way to get dependencies
> updated later, or should I worry about packages not listed in
> 'world'?
> 
> I'm currently at a point where when I try to boot to gentoo,
> most things go okay (lots of green on the screen), but it cannot
> start devfsd (I just emerged it, haven't had a chance to try it),
> but it never proceeds to login -- it just hangs there with the
> bootup stuff on the screen and the only thing that works is
> the 3-finger salute.  Is devfsd likely to solve that (perhaps
> by enabling ptys)?

You emerged devfsd? Which kernel are you using? Which Gentoo did you start
with (1.4 or 2004)? Somewhere along the way I suspect you missed a step.
devfsd and all should just 'be there'. Until the devfs stuff goes away.

Note that there is a 'world' and a 'system'. I would expect to see devfsd in
the system, not the world. The world category tends to be all your add-ons
beyond the base system. These are kept separate so you can update the
'system' (emerge system) separate from the other apps (emerge world). It is
not unusual for something in the world category to want a system thing
updated (and it sill see that it gets done). I have yet to see a system
thing that requires that a world thing get updated. (Of course, I have not
looked too closely.)

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