[gentoo-user] followup

[gentoo-user] followup

[Alan Grimes]

turns out my problem was profoundly simple, I hadn't updated my portage
mirror list in either of the past two geological ages...  (it should
have reported "WAITING ON FETCH" in the emerge update, that would have
saved me about 2 days figuring that out...)

Mirrorselect actually worked. =O

Perl cleaner or whatever it's called solved the rest... Actually just
turning on yet more verbosity allowed me to manually clean everything
out in a reasonable amount of time... My make.conf is starting to look
like a litany of verbosity enables.


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Re: [gentoo-user] followup

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:52:32 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:

> turns out my problem was profoundly simple, I hadn't updated my portage
> mirror list in either of the past two geological ages...  (it should
> have reported "WAITING ON FETCH" in the emerge update, that would have
> saved me about 2 days figuring that out...)
> 
> Mirrorselect actually worked. =O
> 
> Perl cleaner or whatever it's called solved the rest... Actually just
> turning on yet more verbosity allowed me to manually clean everything
> out in a reasonable amount of time... My make.conf is starting to look
> like a litany of verbosity enables.

I take it the is the closest anyone can expect to an apology for the
torrent of abuse in your previous email?


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Neil Bothwick

I believe the technical term is "Oops!"

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Re: [gentoo-user] followup

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:12 PM Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:52:32 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
>
> > turns out my problem was profoundly simple, I hadn't updated my portage
> > mirror list in either of the past two geological ages...  (it should
> > have reported "WAITING ON FETCH" in the emerge update, that would have
> > saved me about 2 days figuring that out...)
> >
> > Mirrorselect actually worked. =O
> >
> > Perl cleaner or whatever it's called solved the rest... Actually just
> > turning on yet more verbosity allowed me to manually clean everything
> > out in a reasonable amount of time... My make.conf is starting to look
> > like a litany of verbosity enables.
>
> I take it the is the closest anyone can expect to an apology for the
> torrent of abuse in your previous email?

Simple solution for that stuff is to just kill the thread.

If you want help, then use an informative subject line and just
explain what is going wrong.  When you post hysterical subject lines
and it just goes downhill from there I don't even bother reading the
messages.  Nobody wants to see you suffer, but nobody around here is
obligated to help either, so at least try to be nice about it...

-- 
Rich