On 30-03-2008 23:09:42 +0100, Rachel Greenham wrote: > There must indeed have been something odd locally poisoning it. I just did > rm -rfv /Gentoo/usr/portage/* and... emerge --sync failed horribly :-) so i > restored /Gentoo/usr/portage/profiles based on a hunch informed by stuff in > the error messages and emerge --sync is now pulling everything down > happily, it seems.
I don't think one of the directories is/was related to the problem. However, it appears that yesterday evening the functionality was restored, and it started to work again. Yet unknown what and why it happened, but it is annoying for sure! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [email protected] mailing list
