On 7/22/25 11:49 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Now I am looking at the page in the handbook where it says we do then > "Installing a distribution kernel" and I want to run : > > # emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel > > That fails with a baffling message : > > chroot# /usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/nice -n +19 emerge --ask --verbose > sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: dracut
[...] > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) > # required by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo[initramfs] > # required by virtual/dist-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo >>=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut > > Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No] Yes [...] > I have no idea what is needed in that file : > > chroot# cat /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask > # package.use > dracut > chroot# > > Also "Invalid atom" is a total mystery. > > Is there a simple way to proceed here? The package.use file contains a series of lines, each of which is an "atom" followed by whitespace followed by USE flags to use. Atoms are documented in emerge(1) as a reference to ebuild(5) which tells us an atom is a package name in full "category/package" format, and extended atoms with versions / slots / comparison operators are ">=category/package-version". The message "> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:" told you the file contents to add (two comment lines and a code line): # required by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo[initramfs] # required by virtual/dist-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo >=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut Where ">=sys-kernel/installkernel-60" is an atom (greater than or equal to version 60 of the package name sys-kernel/installkernel). You said yes, it should write that out. But then, * IMPORTANT: 3 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating. Indicates you need to run dispatch-conf to apply the updates. Your file actually contains "dracut" which is just the second half of a package.use directive -- it is missing the sys-kernel/installkernel atom. -- Eli Schwartz
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