Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken?

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

On 05/04/2015 11:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Today's routine update included dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 and two perl virtuals. 
> Since emerging those portage has stopped working: perl-cleaner gives it a 
> list of 71 packages to emerge but portage does nothing with them - it just 
> exits silently. Then perl-cleaner lists some hundreds of files that it can't 
> do anything with.
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> I've restored from last week's backup and added the offending perl packages 
> to package.mask, but is that the right thing to do?
> 


When I occasionally run into bizarre weirdness like this, I usually wait
one hor, re-sync and try again. If it still fails, then go looking further.

Significant updates to the CVS tree are not atomic and every now and
then you can do a sync while a dev is making his own updates. Especially
in the light that it all works fine for Mick.

If you use a third party tree mirror, you can also update against the
master at rsync.gentoo.org to get the very latest tree.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com