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Adrian wrote: |
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>Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. |
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>I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran |
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>emerge regen |
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>now everything I try to emerge I get: |
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>Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest |
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>>From doing a google, it looks like i need to run |
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>emerge sync |
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>in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be |
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>doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. |
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>I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install |
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>emerge-delta-webrsync and try from there, but of course, I can't emerge |
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>anything . . . |
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>Suggestions please? |
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>Thanks in advance |
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>Adrian |
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I did a manual download once, I think the command you want is emerge |
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metadata. May want to try that first. I'm also familiar with dial-up. |
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I used to be on a slow 26K connection. It sucks. My sympathies and I |
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hope you can get a better connection one day soon. Yea cable modem. :-) |
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You do know that if you get it to where you can do a regular sync, it is |
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a lot faster than a manual download, most of the time anyway?? Just a |
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thought. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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