Bedrock Tutorial
 

On a base Gentoo system I have installed Bedrock and have started the tutorial.

brl list shows:
bedrock
gentoo
tut-alpine
tut-void

Following the tutorial I have run:

man jq | head | tee /tmp/tut1

in another terminal but get:

man: can't create temporary cat for /bedrock/cross/man/cat1/jq.1.gz: Function not implemented

brl which man gives me gentoo but the tutorial wants me to use Void's man command so I tried:

strat tut-void man jq

man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
mandb: can't create index cache /bedrock/cross/man/19348: Function not implemented
man: can't create temporary cat for /bedrock/cross/man/cat1/jq.1.gz: Function not implemented

locale is:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=

What do I need to do to sort this out so I can complete the tutorial please?

This is strange, I've never seen anyone report this. Maybe recent changes in Gentoo, Void, or Alpine broke something that I didn't catch yet.

`/bedrock/cross` is read-only, but this error indicates that, for some reason, `man` is trying to write into it. I don't know why it'd try to do that.

This was a good idea, props for thinking this through. Part of the intent here is to show that you don't have to run `strat` all the time; Bedrock will usually figure out what is needed from context. But if it picks something wrong, manually calling strat is absolutely the correct thing to do.

When you had Bedrock `--hijack` your install, it tried to detect your install distro's locale and stored it in `/bedrock/etc/bedrock.conf` toward the top in the `[locale]` section. It then uses that later to setup the locale of strata you `brl fetch`. It's possible Bedrock didn't properly capture that information when hijacking and set up `tut-void` properly. Check the values in the `[locale]` section of `/bedrock/etc/bedrock.conf`.

IIRC Void's `man` is mandoc, not mandb. I'm not sure why mandb is coming up here at all, let alone trying to write into `/bedrock/cross`.

More trying to write into `/bedrock/cross` that I don't understand.

Ideally I'd want to fix the underlying issue to make this functionality work as expected. However, I can't seem to reproduce it, and I don't have any leads from your description.

What the tutorial is actually looking for at this step is if a file at `/tmp/tut1` (or possibly `/tmp/tut2` etc if you're running multiple tutorials at once) contains "jq". You can trick the tutorial into thinking you ran the desired command by instead just running

Hopefully that unblocks you here and you don't run into any other issues. I'll try to dig into this further independently to see if I can figure it out and ensure it doesn't bite anyone else.

Appreciate the reply. Thanks to your knowledge I got through the remainder of the tutorial.

Locale in bedrock.conf was 'localegen = en_US.utf8 UTF-8, en_GB.utf8 UTF-8'

I'm happy to redo the tutorial and probe for any other information that might be useful to you if that assists?

I've previously had Bedrock installed on a base Linux Mint system and had no bother at all with a Void/Alpine/Gentoo setup hence installing your excellent work first thing on this new laptop

Excellent :)

That seems fine. Presumably the locale issue is something else.

While appreciated, I can't think of anything in particular for you to look at. If I do I'll reach out

Happy to hear it worked well for you there. Perhaps the key difference here is which distro you hijacked. I didn't yet try to hijack a fresh Gentoo install, instead just having minimal instances of three strata on my test system. I'll try to give that a look.