090321 Mike Diehl wrote:
> Ok now, I'm getting fed up with all of the breakage
> that I've seen in Gentoo in the last few months.
I haven't experienced any such thing.
> I'm trying to upgrade MythTV.
I don't use that, so can't help directly.
> Emerge told me to upgrade my profile, which I did.
I have (for a 64-bit system with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor) :
make.profile -> ..//usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0
> Now I'm doing an emerge -u world.
I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world',
then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually.
I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps,
which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items.
I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard:
repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its shortcomings
(was it copied from Free BSD when Gentoo was originally created ? ).
> But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense.
> When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told:
> sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1)
My hand-made list of pkgs tells me that I removed Mktemp 080419
& that it had been required for Debianutils,
of which my current version is 2.28.5 installed 090314 .
Others had problems with this block, perhaps 1 year ago,
so if you really are that far behind in updating,
you should search the list archive to see what the advice was back then:
IIRC a new version of Debianutils incorporated the Mktemp stuff,
so they became incompatible.
> So I do 'emerge -C mktemp' & got a whole page of error messages.
> The most basic msgs indicates the system can't load libselinux.so.1.
Do you have an item in 'make.conf' which requires that somewhere ?
Have you run Revdep-rebuild (pretend), to see what needs updating ?
'slocate' finds no similar file on my system.
> All I want to do is upgrade a machine that I built a few months ago.
"A few months" can be a long time in the Gentoo world (smile).
For a desktop machine, you should do a full update >= once/month :
I do it as a matter of routine every Saturday ('eix-sync' + follow-up).
As others have advised, Gentoo is not for people
who want to install & forget: for that, try Mandriva, a respectable distro.
Anyway, I've offered a few hints above: try them & ask again here.
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