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( [68.186.246.252]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm2870705yxd.2.2008.08.09.05.36.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <489D8F52.7030002@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:36:34 -0400 From: Eric Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080629) 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] Odd portage / eix behavior References: <489C8956.3010302@gmail.com> <200808090940.12868.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200808090940.12868.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC82A93ADB03B0A1EBE0DDB67" X-Archives-Salt: b5a5235a-a419-48da-8e25-f2586645ef8a X-Archives-Hash: 2ab2e9fe41e5d71b5c8c5c9ab10748ba This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC82A93ADB03B0A1EBE0DDB67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: >> On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing fo= r >> my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 a= s >> my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a hu= ge >> 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 he= re. >=20 > I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnect= ed box=20 > that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbo= ls just=20 > like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch porta= ge=20 > fixed it. >=20 > You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you h= ave=20 > done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --= sync,=20 > checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about? >=20 >=20 Yes to everything except the 'purely x86'. I'm running ~x86 on a few thi= ngs dev-perl/Video-Frequencies ~x86 dev-perl/Video-ivtv ~x86 media-tv/ivtv ~x86 app-misc/lirc ~x86 x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtv ~x86 sys-power/powertop ~x86 app-admin/puppet ~x86 dev-ruby/facter ~x86 media-tv/mythtv ~x86 Portage is 2.1.4.4 which my other computers are running. This was my=20 local rsync mirror that sync'd every two days and my other machines=20 sync'd off of it. This is actually happening on two boxes, although I created the problem=20 on the second. It's my mythbox, and I cloned the box via rsync to make=20 a myth-dev box so I can fix it without downtime. My wife is ready to=20 kill me every time I break the mythbox. Portage didn't have the problem = on myth-dev, and then I rsync'd over and the problem was created so I=20 know it's some setting somewhere... --=20 Eric Martin Key fingerprint =3D D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F --------------enigC82A93ADB03B0A1EBE0DDB67 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkidj1sACgkQaiVxdKlBO59BwgCggT17FodKLqX3b3kbaQ11Ab0l 5DAAn1VEmKMwwy9frWYVsIwKhPhrJinr =Ne18 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC82A93ADB03B0A1EBE0DDB67--