From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fragr-0001Qs-Kx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:18:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5HDFw59032270; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:15:58 GMT Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5HD96RO012074 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:09:07 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-58-176.cybersurf.com [216.58.58.176]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B96B598F for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:09:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:10:08 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:10:08 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time Message-ID: <20060617131008.GA24128@waltdnes.org> References: <20060614103526.GB17293@waltdnes.org> <200606141324.58202.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606141324.58202.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 85ca8954-3e08-4484-a461-500445e77872 X-Archives-Hash: b3af3b034a4f49baaed1280f7a157534 On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > I did an "emerge --sync" on my main machine, followed by > > "emerge --ask --deep --update --world --fetchonly". It spent > > several minutes at "Calculating world dependencies", with the > > "spinner" very slowly moving. Eventually it ran. Subsequent > > calls to emerge ran at the usual speed I'm accustomed to. > > You upgraded portage. The einfos said to run 'emerge --metadata' > first thing. Thanks, I'll try to remeber that next time I emerge portage. Could it be made part of the portage ebuild? -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list