Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 06:13:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I've been NFS-exporting the portage treee from a 32-bit atom box to a chroot
> on my workstation, and it's worked well for years, if slowly.
> 
> Now when I try to do the same with a 64-bit celeron machine I'm having a
> problem getting portage to work. If the required distfile is already
> present, no problem, but otherwise, trying to fetch it just hangs. No
> errors, no status, no fetch log, no progress.
> 
> Www-client/links works in the chroot as expected, so the network is set up
> all right; portage just can't use it.
> 
> I've compared /etc/exports on the two clients; also the chroot setup
> scripts, /usr/portage permissions, the USE flags of nfs-utils and
> everything else I can think of. All identical apart from obvious things
> like 32/64 bits and network names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either.
> 
> Any ideas, anyone?

Never mind. I've rebuilt the chroot from stage 3 and it seems to be working 
fine. I only asked in the hope of not having to do that. But then, it didn't 
take too long really. Hey-ho.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.