Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote:
> On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for
> my current arch but stable on some other.  emerge --info reports x86 as
> my arch, so I don't know what the problem is.  I don't think it's a huge
> problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something.  I
> don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here.

I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnected box 
that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbols just 
like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch portage 
fixed it.

You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you have 
done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --sync, 
checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about?


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