User talk:Sakaki/Sakaki's EFI Install Guide/Building the Gentoo Base System Minus Kernel

Package Name Change
"emerge --verbose --oneshot app-portage/cpuinfo2cpuflags"

This package has changed to app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags

This command is still correct

" Now, run the tool and note its output (yours may well differ from the below, which is taken from the Panasonic CF-AX3): (chroot) livecd / #cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86 "

Using the Live DVD (without SSH), August 2016, there were already dependency conflicts for installing git-repository functionality. Might it be worthwhile to setup a systemd profile and perform bootstrap or deep profile update before this step Preparing to Run Parallel emerges? As a relatively new gentoo user, I thought this dependency conflict interrupted the otherwise smooth flow of your guide. --Findle (talk) 17:28, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


 * A very(!) belated thanks for this note (email client was sending notifications about certain talk page changes to spam, fixed now ><). The guide has been updated to reflect this point; also the fact that now the program name has now also changed, to match that of the package.


 * I'll have a look into the dependency point you mention, for users not starting from the minimal-install image. --Sakaki (talk) 09:56, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Another name change. app-crypt/sbsigntool just got renamed to app-crypt/sbsigntools, and now sys-kernel/buildkernel-1.0.30::sakaki-tools can't find it. Tatterdemalian (talk) 15:47, 14 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Run and it should be fixed; I revbumped the  ebuilds to address this (issue #9). --Sakaki (talk) 15:54, 14 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks again for the quick responses! Had the repo masked in the meantime. I really need to bookmark the github page. Tatterdemalian (talk) 00:45, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Engineering team updated the URL...
Just a little FYI that per the engineering team the URL you provided in "Installing an Up-to-Date Portage Tree" is no longer up-to-date. On a side note - maybe the most explicit documentation online I found about getting a Linux to securely boot on UEFI. Trying to reproduce the feats on Hyper-V Generation 2 system for learning purpose.

should now read


 * Thanks! Per the manpage "[m]ost keyservers synchronize with each other, so there is generally no need to send keys to more than one server" (and it is similar situation when receiving); keys when imported must be cross-checked of course, since they may be received across an unauthenticated channel. I've found the  name the most reliable, which is why it's that way in the guide. --Sakaki (talk) 09:56, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Git Repositories Compromised
Sakaki, the following warning was posted to the Gentoo forum a few days ago: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1083234.html?sid=32e5b4df8f28a459648841c175ac3da5

Is the sakaki-tools repository affected by this? --Tatterdemalian (talk) 20:43, 2 July 2018 (UTC)


 * No, is unaffected, as it is under my personal control (although that reminds me, I should migrate to using verified commits by default on this repo). Also, if you have followed the advice in the guide and use the  method to update your main Portage tree (with the  FEATURE set) you will only have been working from signed snapshots, which, according to the release engineering team, are unaffected by the breach.  itself also has the  USE flag to check incremental  tree updates via, but at the time of writing this flag was not turned on by default for stable  Portage, afaik. --Sakaki (talk) 08:55, 3 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately, I think I was using your guide before webrsync-gpg was even a feature, so I have to go back and retrofit my Gentoo install for it. --Tatterdemalian (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Default Portage Locations Change
In the /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf file is the use of "location = /usr/portage" intentional? According to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//usr/portage the default locations have changed. Should the guide be changed, or is there a reason to use /usr/portage? Thank you! Aries97 (talk) 18:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Package name change: app-portage/efitools
Thank you sakaki for this wonderful guide. I followed it in early March 2020 and some package locations had changed: app-crypt/efitools is now app-portage/efitools.

Also, there was an emerge failure with efitools because of a mis-spelling in the code, if you search for "UNKOWN" in the file called "console". I worked around it by CTRL-Z while portage was preparing the package and then editing the source file in an editor. There's probably a better way to do this, though.

Koivunen (talk) 10:29, 14 March 2020 (UTC)