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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> skribis: |
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> John Myers posted <200511181334.24646.electronerd@××××××××××.com>, |
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> excerpted below, on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:34:20 -0800: |
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> > I was just running 'emerge -p depclean' to see what portage thinks it doesn't |
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> > need anymore, to tune my world file, and it told me |
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> > |
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> > !!! You have no system list. |
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> > !!! Proceeding will break your installation. |
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> > This seemed a little odd to me. |
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> > What file is the system list stored in? I thought it was somewhere |
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> > in /usr/portage/profiles, but I couldn't find anything there, either on this |
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> > box, or on my (x86) local rsync server (which still has its system list). |
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> > both machines are running portage-2.0.53_rc7 and accept ~arch |
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> The system list will be in your profile, which is /supposed/ to be the |
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> directory pointed to by the /etc/make.profile symlink. Normally, that |
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> symlink will point to somewhere in the portage tree, under profiles, which |
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> would mean a subdir of /usr/portage/profiles (typically |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.1 or something similar), if |
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> you haven't customized the path to your $PORTDIR. |
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> Assuming the symlink is pointing to the correct spot in your portage tree, |
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> if the spot (or your entire portage tree) is somehow empty, an emerge sync |
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> should correct the issue. |
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Neh, I got the same problem. Seems sync with an outside server fixes |
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the problem, so it must be a bug in my local rsync server, likely a |
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semi-ubiquitous bug. |
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