Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:15:28
Message-Id: 20190124191506.0d9ab6be@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis: by Alan Grimes
1 On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:39:52 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
2
3 > !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found:
4 > /usr/portage/dev-python/pygments/files/pygments-2.2.0-sphinx17.patch
5 >
6 > !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found:
7 > /usr/portage/dev-lang/ruby/files/2.4/012-openssl_1.1.patch
8 >
9 > !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found:
10 > /usr/portage/dev-lang/ruby/files/2.4/012-openssl_1.1.patch
11
12 [snip]
13
14 Have you checked whether these files actually exist? The do here.
15
16 > Hypothesis 1:
17 >
18 > Rsync failed to correctly perform it's primary function.
19
20 It seems to have done here.
21 >
22 > Hypothesis 2:
23 >
24 > Some F-tard at Gentoo world headquarters left the portage tree in an
25 > inconsistient state, shrugged, and walked away.
26
27 This isn't worthy of comment.
28
29 Hypothesis 3:
30
31 PEBKAC
32
33 Have you synced again?
34 Have you checked whether the files exist?
35 Have you tried doing a simple "emerge -u @system" first instead of trying
36 to rebuild everything?
37 Why are you even using --emptytree?
38
39 > I'll leave it to you to decide which is more probable.
40
41 I think that's clear.
42
43 > Spent a good 2 hours on this just now. =|
44
45 More like a bad 2 hours, a good ten minutes may have been more productive.
46
47
48 --
49 Neil Bothwick
50
51 ... but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because
52 some watery tart threw a sword at you!