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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:18:18
Message-Id: 20060617131008.GA24128@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time by Benno Schulenberg
1 On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote
2 > Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > I did an "emerge --sync" on my main machine, followed by
4 > > "emerge --ask --deep --update --world --fetchonly". It spent
5 > > several minutes at "Calculating world dependencies", with the
6 > > "spinner" very slowly moving. Eventually it ran. Subsequent
7 > > calls to emerge ran at the usual speed I'm accustomed to.
8 >
9 > You upgraded portage. The einfos said to run 'emerge --metadata'
10 > first thing.
11
12 Thanks, I'll try to remeber that next time I emerge portage. Could it
13 be made part of the portage ebuild?
14
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16 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
17 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>