More progress... So after tweaking the portage overlay tree and adding some symlinks, portage will calculate the deps for emerge -av system. But when I try to emerge the 53 packages it fails because it is trying to merge to "/".... ie: Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> emerge (1 of 53) sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1 to / !!! File system problem. (Bad Symlink?) !!! Fetching may fail: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '' !!! No write access to / !!! File patch-2.5.9.tar.gz isn't fetched but unable to get it.
---------------- Note the "/" in the first line. Still my environment is missing something. But I'm getting closer.... On 12/19/05, Kito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:49 PM, m h wrote: > > > Also why is emerge -av system trying to installing portage2.1? > > > > Because portage is part of the base system packages. You manually > installed portage(i.e. not via an ebuild) so portage itself doesn't > know it is installed(hope that made sense). In other words, you have > an empty world file, and portage is trying to satisfy all the deps > specified in your base profile. > > Take a look at PORTDIR/profiles/base/packages > > On a side note, I put a placeholder on a wiki page[1] so we can start > trying to consolidate all of our various notes/efforts. Alas, I > didn't have time today to put anything useful... > > --Kito > > [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage-prefix > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
