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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:43:44
Message-Id: 2245367.OaqxaeRB92@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sunday, 22 April 2018 06:13:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > I've been NFS-exporting the portage treee from a 32-bit atom box to a chroot
3 > on my workstation, and it's worked well for years, if slowly.
4 >
5 > Now when I try to do the same with a 64-bit celeron machine I'm having a
6 > problem getting portage to work. If the required distfile is already
7 > present, no problem, but otherwise, trying to fetch it just hangs. No
8 > errors, no status, no fetch log, no progress.
9 >
10 > Www-client/links works in the chroot as expected, so the network is set up
11 > all right; portage just can't use it.
12 >
13 > I've compared /etc/exports on the two clients; also the chroot setup
14 > scripts, /usr/portage permissions, the USE flags of nfs-utils and
15 > everything else I can think of. All identical apart from obvious things
16 > like 32/64 bits and network names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either.
17 >
18 > Any ideas, anyone?
19
20 Never mind. I've rebuilt the chroot from stage 3 and it seems to be working
21 fine. I only asked in the hope of not having to do that. But then, it didn't
22 take too long really. Hey-ho.
23
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>