Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:45:53 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I decided to do a fresh install on the larger drive. I sort of like to >> brush up every once in a while. I got to the point where I want to do a >> emerge -e system then copy my world file over and finish it up. It >> appears that the stage3 tarball is in a state where not much can be >> upgraded. Every time I try to update something, I get a list of blocks, >> either packages or USE flags. > > I've seen that if you switch to ~arch and make wholesale USE flag > changes. I think I avoided most of it by switching arch, doing emerge -e > system or world and then changing USE flags. > >
I even tried USE="-*" emerge -e system and it just griped. I have also tried to upgrade one package at a time. Each one complains about some other package. I'll try again another time. I'm ready to hang portage right now. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"