BRM schrieb: > I took the dive on my laptop this weekend and installed Gentoo 2008.0. I > started Friday night and used the stage3 and latest-portage. > The initial install when okay, until I started emerging applications - > specifically X windows/KDE/etc; and that is the point I am still working on. > > The problem seems to be that emerge/portage is not detecting dependencies > correctly, or rather - a dependency says it is installed but the ebuilds for > other packages that depend on it do not find the files it supposedly > installed. For example, I have had to manually emerge nearly all the X > protocol (e.g. xproto, xkbproto, etc.) packages. > > I've installed several other gentoo systems, but not with 2008.0 directly > like this - my last two were installed under 2007.0 and upgraded to 2008.0 > profiles. > The only bug reports I come across seem to indicate broken e-builds, but that > does seem to be the case as "emerge --search <program>" indicates it is > installed when in fact it might not be which leads me to believe that the > local portage database (?) is somehow broken or something... > > Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior? > Is there anything I can to do get fixed? > -- Preferably without re-installing from scratch, though I can if need be > since I haven't gotten that far despite >48 hours of time put into it already. > > Nearly every time I run "emerge world -vuDN" it will go for a while and then > break when the contents of a package that was supposedly installed are not > found by a package depending on it. > > Any how...any tips would be greatly appreciated! > > Ben > > > That sounds like a broken world file. try regenworld to fix this. After that emerge -uvaDn world to fix all deps. If you didn't unemerge any package (python gcc or so) you should get all dependencies that way. Run revdep-rebuild will help some more afterwards.
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