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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: |
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>> On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for |
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>> my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as |
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>> my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge |
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>> problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something. I |
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>> don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here. |
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> I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnected box |
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> that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbols just |
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> like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch portage |
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> fixed it. |
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> You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you have |
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> done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --sync, |
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> checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about? |
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I figured it out! /etc/make.profile was linked to |
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/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/2008.0 rather than |
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/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/2007.0 |
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(as all of my other machines are). Changing that solved it. What I |
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don't get is why that would break things... |
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Eric Martin |
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