From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jb4hx-00058r-07 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:04:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 302C8E04CB; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055FAE04CB for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h30so4560880wxd.10 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.173.18 with SMTP id v18mr9395792ane.101.1205719450521; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [68.44.91.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e27sm10441229elf.1.2008.03.16.19.04.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47DDD198.4020701@xaerolimit.net> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:04:08 -0400 From: Chris Brennan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080313) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage References: <20080317012241.GA1689@gentoovm.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20080317012241.GA1689@gentoovm.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 99af5823-9564-4f82-9665-1bcd83d958ae X-Archives-Hash: e37c288515da3fac5bbee4e00b806492 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the cache in ~ 3 minutes now .... ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree like portage ... the filesystem just isn't quick enough .... there are some other things you can do like using xfs/jfs for /usr/portage/distfiles and what not, but that' just a start. First thing is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D John J. Foster wrote: | I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme | slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also | previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not | really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every | emerge command returns | | festus@gentoovm ~ $ emerge --info | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 31, in ? | import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py", line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py", line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH | | I already tried | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml | but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! | | Any help greatly appreciated. | | Thanks, | festus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3dGY8hUIAnGfls4RApvUAJ9pK3wWqS5LpwvRtCOfzrItpxxtDgCgjdJm mgZu5SRDPda51qAuZtX58RE= =8DRz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list