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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge takes a long time calculating dependencies...
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:51:56
Message-Id: 200809181652.05637.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge takes a long time calculating dependencies... by BRM
1 On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:43:31 BRM wrote:
2 > Not sure. Will check though. If so, how would I resolve it?
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4 You can rebuild the cache:
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6 rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*
7 emerge --metadata
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9 Changing to an sqlite cache can also help:
10 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_sqlite
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12 alan
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16 > Ben
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20 > ----- Original Message ----
21 > From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
22 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
23 > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:04:11 AM
24 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge takes a long time calculating
25 > dependencies...
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27 > 2008/9/18 BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com>:
28 > > And I am only referring to the time specified in the "calculating
29 > > dependencies" stage when one first runs "emerge world -vuDNp".
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31 > Is the second run significantly faster, if yes chances are high that
32 > there is a problem with the portage cache.
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37 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com