This fine morning I awoke to find that in my fairly new gentoo install
nearly all of /usr/portage is gone.
bash-2.05b# ls -lA /mnt/gentoo-new/usr/portage
total 20
drwxrwsr-x 4 root portage 16384 Jul 12 22:10 distfiles
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 11 23:04 packages
bash-2.05b#
The distfiles directory has many (appropriate) files and packages has
the one package it should. The partition has plenty of room (almost
7GB).
I run esync from cron (anacron) when I boot and it failed (see below
for the mail sent by anacron) telling me to see emerge-sync.log. Here
I see some failures and a statement that a new version of portage is
available (again see below).
I still have my previous gentoo (using it right now) on a different
partition. It started from one of the 2004 profiles, but has been
kept up to date until a very few weeks ago when I started cutting over
to my new system. I can certainly run an
emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world
but wanted to do as little as possible before asking for advice.
My main question is whether I should copy files from the old
/usr/portage to the new one or is there better method to proceed.
I keep extensive backups of all my files and all of /etc, but do not
backup the system files (other than having an older version of gentoo
that is kept reasonably up to date).
Thanks for any help.
allan
================ Mail from anacron concerning today's esync ================
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* Importing old portage tree
* Doing '/usr/bin/emerge sync' now
* Error: '/usr/bin/emerge sync' failed, see /var/log/emerge-sync.log for errors
run-parts: /local/etc/anacron-daily-2/esync-cron exited with return code 1
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* Importing old portage tree
* Doing '/usr/bin/emerge sync' now
* Doing 'eupdatedb' now
* esearch-index generated in 1 second(s)
* indexed 0 ebuilds
* size of esearch-index: 0 kB
* Importing new portage tree
* Preparing databases
* Searching for changes
* No updates found
================ Contents of emerge-sync.log ================
rsync: failed to connect to 128.118.99.31: Connection timed out
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(88)
==============================
CLARKSON OPEN SOURCE INSTITUTE
http://cosi.clarkson.edu
==============================
IP: mirror.clarkson.edu
rsync10.us.gentoo.org
Specs: Sun Ultra60
2 x 296Mhz CPUs
1796 MB RAM
250 GB RAID Storage
Bandwidth: 10 Mbit (when limited)
User Limit: 35 off-campus connections
Location: Clarkson University
http://www.clarkson.edu
Potsdam, NY USA
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==============================
Welcome to our rsync server.
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 32 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 32
Total bytes written: 203
Total bytes read: 550
wrote 203 bytes read 550 bytes 301.20 bytes/sec
total size is 32 speedup is 0.04
==============================
CLARKSON OPEN SOURCE INSTITUTE
http://cosi.clarkson.edu
==============================
IP: mirror.clarkson.edu
rsync10.us.gentoo.org
Specs: Sun Ultra60
2 x 296Mhz CPUs
1796 MB RAM
250 GB RAID Storage
Bandwidth: 10 Mbit (when limited)
User Limit: 35 off-campus connections
Location: Clarkson University
http://www.clarkson.edu
Potsdam, NY USA
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==============================
Welcome to our rsync server.
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
0 files...
Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 20
Total bytes written: 181
Total bytes read: 538
wrote 181 bytes read 538 bytes 287.60 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
>>> starting rsync with rsync://128.118.99.31/gentoo-portage...
>>> checking server timestamp ...
>>> retry ...
>>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://128.153.144.22/gentoo-portage
>>> checking server timestamp ...
* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
* that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
* Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.
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