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From: Anthony Gorecki <anthony@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 2.0.51 comments/questions
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:43:51
Message-Id: 200409262142.25247.anthony@ectrolinux.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Portage 2.0.51 comments/questions by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Sunday 26 September 2004 8:52 pm, Duncan wrote:
2 > 1) The new "spinner" is /very/ cool!
3
4 I found it annoying, especially on systems that use varying screen
5 resolutions; thankfully it doesn't seem to be present in portage-2.0.51-rc5
6 and later.
7
8
9 Has anyone else had this version break updates where the distfiles directory
10 is contained within a remote Samba share? I receive the following error
11 message whenever I attempt to merge a package, and Bugzilla doesn't seem to
12 have the issue listed:
13
14 entro ~ # emerge vim
15 Calculating dependencies ...done!
16 >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-editors/vim-6.3-r1 to /
17 *** Adjusting cvs-src permissions for portage user...
18 Traceback (most recent call last):
19 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2844, in ?
20 mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
21 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1737, in merge
22 retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug)
23 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2370, in doebuild
24 if not fetch(fetchme, mysettings, listonly=listonly, fetchonly=fetchonly):
25 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1780, in fetch
26 portage_locks.unlockfile(file_lock)
27 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 126, in unlockfile
28 raise IOError, "Failed to unlock file '%s'\n" % lockfilename
29 IOError: Failed to unlock file
30 '/usr/portage/distfiles/.locks/vim-6.3.tar.bz2.portage_lockfile'
31
32
33 --
34 Anthony Gorecki
35 Ectro-Linux Foundation

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 2.0.51 comments/questions Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>