Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I wasn't even aware of the ask option, It is explained in the emerge man page. I think I realize now, that even thoughthe program name is emeerge, I didn't realize you folks call the job of installing a program, merging As is this. You

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and similar programs that are used by other programs. One program

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: SNIP Portage handles SLOT updates by only considering the latest SLOT (unless you say otherwise). If I issue 'emerge kde-meta' on my box, portage wants to install kde-4.0.2 because that is the latest version (portage always wants to upgrade to the latest possible version

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I wasn't even aware of the ask option, It is explained in the emerge man page. I think I realize now, that even thoughthe program name is emeerge, I didn't realize

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:31:57 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: As is this. You really need to read man emerge and man portage to understand what you are doing. I've read it 4 times already, I just donm['t have it memorized. I did check and prove that it doesn't even mention the word slot % man

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: It certainly does!  AND I found that there IS one document that tells you more than a fleeting hint about slots: the eix man page.  Someone else sort of snidely said you should read the emerge man page after giving me (once again) description of

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 14 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: Vladimir Rusinov wrote: Just add opengl to your use flags and `emerge -v1 =x11-libs/qt-3*` Then, you'll probably need `emerge --update --deep --newuse kde-meta` (or emerge -uDN

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: * The die message: * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl. asks me to rebuild something that doesn't exist. It does exist, the wildcard tells portage

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: * The die message: * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl. asks me to rebuild something that doesn't exist. It does exist, the wildcard tells portage

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Dale
Chuck Robey wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: * The die message: * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl. asks me to rebuild something that doesn't exist. It does exist, the wildcard tells portage to install the latest 3

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: * The die message: * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl. asks me to rebuild something that doesn't exist. It

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Dale
Chuck Robey wrote: It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you HOW to use slots. So, now I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you HOW

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and similar programs that are used by other programs. One program needs libfoo 1.x,another needs libfoo 2.x. Slots

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and similar programs that are used by other

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots, In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and similar programs that

[gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install kde-meta. I have been fixing my USE variables as I find mistakes, and apprently, from this error I got (while building kde-base/kopete-3.5.8) I was missing the opengl variable while I built a lot of stuff, and it wants me to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On 3/14/08, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install kde-meta. I have been fixing my USE variables as I find mistakes, and apprently, from this error I got (while building kde-base/kopete-3.5.8) I was missing the opengl

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On 3/14/08, *Chuck Robey* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install kde-meta. I have been fixing my USE variables as I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reemerge x11-libs/qt with the qt3support *AND* opengl flags, qt-4.3 merged qt-3 into the qt-4 src-tree Leviathan ~ # emerge -vp qt ~ * Mounting 850M of memory to /var/tmp/portage ... ~ [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: Vladimir Rusinov wrote: Just add opengl to your use flags and `emerge -v1 =x11-libs/qt-3*` Then, you'll probably need `emerge --update --deep --newuse kde-meta` (or emerge -uDN kde-meta) You aren't understanding me. I am fully aware of qt

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: * The die message: * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl. asks me to rebuild something that doesn't exist. It does exist, the wildcard tells portage to install the latest 3 version. Try doing what it says in the

[gentoo-user] Portage problem with xfce4-panel

2007-02-27 Thread Grant
I just did an emerge --sync; emerge world and I'm having some trouble with: xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4 (is blocking xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.0) I unmerged xfce4-panel but I still get the above blocking message. A pretend emerge of xfce4-panel confirms that it is not installed. How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage problem with xfce4-panel

2007-02-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:38:49 Grant wrote: I just did an emerge --sync; emerge world and I'm having some trouble with: xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4 (is blocking xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.0) I unmerged xfce4-panel but I still get the above blocking message. A pretend emerge of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage problem with xfce4-panel

2007-02-27 Thread Grant
I just did an emerge --sync; emerge world and I'm having some trouble with: xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4 (is blocking xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.0) I unmerged xfce4-panel but I still get the above blocking message. A pretend emerge of xfce4-panel confirms that it is not installed. How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage problem with xfce4-panel

2007-02-27 Thread Bruno Espinoza
Exist a much easier way to avoid unmasking packages. Go to your /etc/make.conf. Change your architecture from x86 to ~x86. Now emerge xfce4-panel. If you don't want to be in the testing architecture. Go back and change ~x86 to x86. That's pretty easy... and no need to unamsk! Regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage problem with xfce4-panel

2007-02-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:43:30 -0500 Bruno Espinoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exist a much easier way to avoid unmasking packages. Go to your /etc/make.conf. Change your architecture from x86 to ~x86. Now emerge xfce4-panel. If you don't want to be in the testing architecture. Go back and change

[gentoo-user] portage problem?

2006-03-27 Thread Jean Blignaut
I get this error when I try to sync receiving file list ... link_stat metadata/timestamp.chk (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory 0 files to consider -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem?

2006-03-27 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Jean Blignaut wrote: I get this error when I try to sync receiving file list ... link_stat metadata/timestamp.chk (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory 0 files to consider I would wait it out...it looks like a server problem and it should be cleared up soon. Check this

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-14 Thread Martin Gysel
Zac Medico schrieb: Martin Gysel wrote: hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3263, in ? if resume in portage.mtimedb and \ KeyError: 'mergelist'

[gentoo-user] Portage Problem

2006-03-14 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks -- I put this one out on #gentoo earlier and no-one had a solution but im hoping someone here might have one I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Problem

2006-03-14 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 2006-03-14 16:47, Timothy A. Holmes uttered these thoughts: I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way to install JFFNMS without installing php4 and have it

[gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Gysel
hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3263, in ? if resume in portage.mtimedb and \ KeyError: 'mergelist' can someone please help me regards martin --

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2006-03-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Gysel wrote: hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3263, in ? if resume in portage.mtimedb and \