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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: output of emerge -v emacs-vcs (not the masking something else)
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:56:47
Message-Id: 87box6oicv.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: output of emerge -v emacs-vcs (not the masking something else) by walt
1 walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > On 07/03/2011 03:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
4 >> I'm getting output from emerge -v emacs-vcs like this:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >> * ERROR: app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.9999-r1 failed (unpack phase):
8 >> * bzr.eclass: can't pull from bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
9 >>
10 >> I tried
11 >> bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
12 >> by hand and had no problems with it.
13 >
14 > I've never used a 9999 version that pulls from bzr, but I have used
15 > some that pull from git and (yuk) svn. The cloned repos were stored
16 > (I think) in /usr/portage/disfiles/git (or svn) -- or something similar.
17 >
18 > If you can find a bzr repo in your /usr/portage/distfiles, try deleting
19 > it. My memory is a bit fuzzy here, but you get the general idea, I hope.
20
21 Haaa... yep, that worked .. (deleting bzr-src)
22
23 I was suprized to learn the repo was created in /usr/portage/distfiles
24
25 I thought it would happen in /var/tmp. Well, now I know... thanks.
26
27 If you happen to do an `emerge emacs-vcs' be prepared for a really
28 looonnnnggg wait on bzr. It is the absolute slowest thing going to
29 check a module out from.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: output of emerge -v emacs-vcs (not the masking something else) Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>