[gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm not expecting that I can get a simple answer to this so I'm posting one of very many errors I'm seeing now. Please excuse the nature of my frustration here. I'm venting at this point. I've been messing with a standard x86, middle of the road Gentoo machine for over two days now. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' looks like your libraries are a little off. Have you tried revdep-rebuild? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Danilo Marcelo
Try to remerge only gnome first and check the flags. 2007/9/12, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevf

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 01:36:56 Mark Knecht wrote: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' # ls -l /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la # equery check gnome-vfs ? -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' > > looks like your libraries are a littl

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:06:21 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or attempt to change > revision numbers by hand on the fly in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:06:21 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One seemingly large problem is that > > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip > a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them > with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. > OK, the emerge -DuN world f

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 04:54:08 Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, the emerge -DuN world finished up and said everything was good. I > then ran revdep-rebuild and have a list of things that need to be > rebuilt. One has failed - dev-libs/apr-util. > > checking gdbm.h presence... yes > checking for gdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come > while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 September 2007 04:54:08 Mark Knecht wrote: > > OK, the emerge -DuN world finished up and said everything was good. I > > then ran revdep-rebuild and have a list of things that need to be > > rebuilt. One has failed - dev-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come > > while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that > > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages th

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:23:45 Mark Knecht wrote: > gda-firebird-recordset.c:517: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete > type make[2]: *** [gda-firebird-recordset.lo] Error 1 [...] > !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/libgda-1.2.3 failed. You really ought to learn to search bugzie.. :p https://

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip > a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them > with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. > Error #3 follows. This one

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:32:07 Mark Knecht wrote: > That's very interesting. What about slotting issues? What if it's the > old version in a slot that needs to be rebuilt? (FYI - I don't really > understand slotting that much since I don't program. I've guessed it's > because some code need

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:09:22 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > berkdb = sys-libs/db. apr-util is slotted and 0.9.12 is in a > different slot than 1.2.8. this might give you some idea of what packages might be effected by the nontrivial update of db: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eq

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:43 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said I think most of my home would be better > off with something like Ubuntu or Suse but I haven't the inclination > to learn it. Ubuntu's _really_ easy as long as nothing goes wrong with the kernel (there's no he

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:37 PM > > I've been messing with a standard x86, middle of the road Gentoo > machine for over two days now. There must be 20 or 30 packages that > won't build. Frustrating. > > Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:57:35 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Another 4 million ebuild.log files to parse and act > upon after every update. Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email the important bits instead of trying to read the files manually :-/ -- Neil Bothwi

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:58:16 Dan Farrell wrote: > > berkdb = sys-libs/db. apr-util is slotted and 0.9.12 is in a > > different slot than 1.2.8. > > this might give you some idea of what packages might be effected by the > nontrivial update of db: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends d

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:41:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > > This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip > > a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them > > with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. [...] > db2omf: Coul

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 13. September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:57:35 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > Another 4 million ebuild.log files to parse and act > > upon after every update. > > Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email > the important bits

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daevid Vincent wrote: > I wonder what am I hanging on to Gentoo for (since my first > install in 2004). > > I REALLY love the theory behind it. I REALLY think/thought it has > potential. I REALLY love the customization. So ask yourself what customizations you made in Gentoo that you can't make in

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:46:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage > > email the important bits instead of trying to read the files > > manually :-/ > > elogv/elogviewer claws-mail does it for me :) -- Neil Bothwick And wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:32:40 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The above command will show all installed packages > that *may* [1] depend on any installed version of sys-libs/db... Isn't that kind of the point, though? If you can't install the slotted version you need, the c

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
in emerge -DuN world these days On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:57:35 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Another 4 million ebuild.log files to parse and act > upon after every update. Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email the important bits instead of trying to read the

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:05:57 -0500, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > Really?...Portage can do that? because I would like to get portage on my > system to do that. Step 1: Stop top posting Step 2: Read /etc/make.conf.example, the part about PORTAGE_ELOG -- Neil Bothwick Protect your softwar

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:35:50 -0500, Neil Bothwick wrote: >Step 1: Stop top posting >Step 2: Read /etc/make.conf.example, the part about PORTAGE_ELOG Sure will. Thanks Neil. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/13/07, Marzan, Richard non Unisys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:35:50 -0500, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >Step 1: Stop top posting > >Step 2: Read /etc/make.conf.example, the part about PORTAGE_ELOG > > > Sure will. Thanks Neil. Just a final comment to say that after 3 da