Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

[Strong Cypher]

for better perf i use ext2 with some tweak
mkfs.ext2 -I2048 -m0 /dev/myPartition
I use sqlite in backend and eix for searching update
the speed is now really excellent
every thing could be found on wiki
good luck

On 3/17/08, Chris Brennan <xaero@××××××××××.net> wrote:
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> *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get
> better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the
> cache in ~ 3 minutes now .... ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree
> like portage ... the filesystem just isn't quick enough .... there are
> some other things you can do like using xfs/jfs for
> /usr/portage/distfiles and what not, but that' just a start. First thing
> is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can
> help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D
>
> John J. Foster wrote:
> | I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme
> | slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also
> | previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not
> | really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every
> | emerge command returns
> |
> | festus@gentoovm ~ $ emerge --info
> | Traceback (most recent call last):
> |   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 31, in ?
> |     import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string,
> time, types
> |   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py", line 7, in ?
> |     from portage_const import
> PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE
> |   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py", line 7, in ?
> |     from portage_const import
> PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE
> | ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH
> |
> | I already tried
> | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
> | but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg!
> |
> | Any help greatly appreciated.
> |
> | Thanks,
> | festus
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