[gentoo-portage-dev] Error notification when PORTAGE_BINHOST unreachable?

[gentoo-portage-dev] Error notification when PORTAGE_BINHOST unreachable?

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Hi.
I'm trying to emerge a binary package I've put on a remote host.
Initially I couldn't get the package to emerge:

amit0 Common # emerge -pvg =app-editors/vim-7.1.266

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies -
Fetching bininfo from http://package-repo/binpkg
cache miss: '0' --- cache hit: '0'
... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=app-editors/vim-7.1.266".

This happens because the Packages index on the remote host wasn't 
readable to non-root.

After I've fixed this, emerge works as-expected:

amit0 Common # emerge -pvg =app-editors/vim-7.1.266

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[binary  N    ] app-editors/vim-core-7.1.266  USE="bash-completion nls 
-acl -livecd"
[binary  N    ] app-editors/vim-7.1.266  USE="bash-completion gpm nls 
perl python -acl -cscope -minimal -ruby -vim-pager -vim-with-x"
[ebuild  N    ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220  USE="-ignore-glep31" 18 kB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 18 kB

Is the "cache miss: '0' --- cache hit: '0'" message suppose to indicate 
the error in fetching binpkg data? Is it considered at-all an error? If 
so, I'd suggest a more-clear error message.

Thanks,
Amit

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Error notification when PORTAGE_BINHOST unreachable?

[Zac Medico]

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Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm trying to emerge a binary package I've put on a remote host.
> Initially I couldn't get the package to emerge:
> 
> amit0 Common # emerge -pvg =app-editors/vim-7.1.266
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies -
> Fetching bininfo from http://package-repo/binpkg
> cache miss: '0' --- cache hit: '0'
> ... done!
> 
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=app-editors/vim-7.1.266".
> 
> This happens because the Packages index on the remote host wasn't
> readable to non-root.
> 
> After I've fixed this, emerge works as-expected:
> 
> amit0 Common # emerge -pvg =app-editors/vim-7.1.266
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [binary  N    ] app-editors/vim-core-7.1.266  USE="bash-completion nls
> -acl -livecd"
> [binary  N    ] app-editors/vim-7.1.266  USE="bash-completion gpm nls
> perl python -acl -cscope -minimal -ruby -vim-pager -vim-with-x"
> [ebuild  N    ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220  USE="-ignore-glep31" 18 kB
> 
> Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 18 kB
> 
> Is the "cache miss: '0' --- cache hit: '0'" message suppose to indicate
> the error in fetching binpkg data? Is it considered at-all an error? If
> so, I'd suggest a more-clear error message.

That's not an error. However, the output indicates that it's using
the older binhost protocol. This means that
http://package-repo/binpkg/Packages doesn't exist for some reason.
This could mean that you've shared the wrong directory. You should
be sharing the $PKGDIR directory in order for the new protocol to
work. If that directory doesn't contain a Packages file, or some of
the packages were built with less than portage-2.1.6, then you
should run `emaint --fix binhost` on the server. That will ensure
that the Packages file contains all of the appropriate metadata for
all of your packages.
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Thanks,
Zac
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