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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what must be writable by portage
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:15:32
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0508241405170.23087@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] what must be writable by portage by Konstantinos Agouros
1 On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
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3 > I have a number of gentoo systems and have a central /usr/portage that's
4 > share by nfs. There are also binary packages that are shared and available
5 > for all. The nfs-exports are read-only
6 > If I set up a new machine and it only has read-only access from the be-
7 > ginning I have no problems. However recently a machine was added that
8 > was set up by itself and that one falls with read-only access on its face
9 > when I try to emerge something. Mostly in the fixpackages part.
10 >
11 > What do I need to reset to make this work more smoothly?
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13 Maybe the fact that the export is read-only?
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15 Im sure fixpackages will want to write to files under portage
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17 What do the errors say?
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