Hi, Walter.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:33:06AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:24:32AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote

>   Once you're back to your old setup, can you do me a favour?  Please do
> the following...

> 1) Add the line...

> sys-fs/udev

> to /etc/portage/package.mask.

DONE.

> 2) Run the 2 commands
> emerge -pv system > system.txt
> emerge -pv world > world.txt

> 3) Remove the "sys-fs/udev" entry from /etc/portage/package.mask.

:-)  I would have forgotten about that.

> and gzip or zip the files system.txt and world.txt and file-attach them.
> My guess is that at the end of world.txt, there will be a complaint
> about udev being masked.  I intend to add that sanity-check to the
> instructions, so that people will know ahead of time whether or not
> they'll run into this problem.

I also did "2> {system,world}.err".  system.err was empty.  I've included
world.err in the enclosed tarball.

>   Again, sorry about putting you through this trouble.  You did what a
> beta tester is supposed to do, i.e. find problems/bugs.

Not at all!  I'd love to get this working on my machine.

> -- 
> Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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