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|    J.O. Aho to AZ Nomad    |
|    Re: strange emerge problem    |
|    07 Nov 08 21:19:12    |
      From: user@example.net              AZ Nomad wrote:       > On a diskless system using an nfs root, when I do an "emerge -Dp       > world", it always wants to re-emerge everything!       >       > I checked the versions on a few of the packages, and the versions that       > emerge wanted to build were all the same. Letting it go ahead and       > rebuild all 177 packages doesn't help. It still wants to build 177       > packages every time.       >       > emerge --regen didn't help; nor does redoing --sync.       > One thing weird about 'emerge --sync' is that there's no "percentage"       > countup like I'm used to seeing.              Do you share the data with another computer?       Is the ownership correct? Think portage may not like of the owner nobody.       Are the clocks on the server and client at sync? This can cause trouble if the       files on the nfs looks like outdated or far in the future.                            --               //Aho              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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