From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFB8C1382C5 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 19:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21234E08C4; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 19:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ot1-f45.google.com (mail-ot1-f45.google.com [209.85.210.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C21ABE0886 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 19:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ot1-f45.google.com with SMTP id 63so14209297oty.0 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:23:11 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=KDjit7uliiyu1KS6hQNXvdvecmBpdaTj6ql5u9OGSyw=; b=Cjb7S2u3Jyp7ZEDY5I7/eBE8+NeZ2rbv6CedKJQdLjxY2TICmIihQh9Q3eN0G8SSzG 5iq4ddmw6H6VjXIuIsRA1bJqG/661096dGZLL4q30uQLQ6w4E4suMvx2vM72k9lyNXe3 LEhFC4pFaA21JO3Wr8i4DoCIqPN4lj/F7zEYTBAc0HrmmwMwIR6cmpdK6NxFLA1Dlw16 peThZ9hSeLErARcEAecHfSLIhUPmSczHV++4Ch3LZ+p8TIxAK0Bn0VSdavtjj5+gYXG3 5FWgc7p/w6NbeVLu13S0Paa7X6xz9MclLlpG6hdWz6gs4zkwJMAl4mWANo/tcmHRanqi KTwQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530K/jJYxevyP862sJrl2mv8Grr4U87dCoO18aNHTLt48VJfyB1e afWduxSlQcXm4CWYNmI8sTiyx98ejJvb+3JZkRE9jbgG X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJw3tfYoRm72VfkXZZvCHbtTg8IJi4RhjBW8HEMq6pIXWtPuyfw3ImfrLnoirOlFDyh0D0IpFk7iqObU3/qSBHA= X-Received: by 2002:a9d:310:: with SMTP id 16mr9303556otv.223.1612120991027; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:23:11 -0800 (PST) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <376924f5-2e9a-d9cd-5391-c61af9589167.ref@verizon.net> <376924f5-2e9a-d9cd-5391-c61af9589167@verizon.net> <20210131191107.10ebf578@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20210131191107.10ebf578@digimed.co.uk> From: Rich Freeman Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:22:59 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] followup To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 1ca2f65f-d052-49fc-90a2-5018fa552d24 X-Archives-Hash: 7de1a02eee145382f1ae745e13dd3702 On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:12 PM Neil Bothwick 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