Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote:On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something. I don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here.I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnected box that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbols just like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch portage fixed it.You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you have done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --sync, checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about?
Yes to everything except the 'purely x86'. I'm running ~x86 on a few things dev-perl/Video-Frequencies ~x86 dev-perl/Video-ivtv ~x86 media-tv/ivtv ~x86 app-misc/lirc ~x86 x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtv ~x86 sys-power/powertop ~x86 app-admin/puppet ~x86 dev-ruby/facter ~x86 media-tv/mythtv ~x86Portage is 2.1.4.4 which my other computers are running. This was my local rsync mirror that sync'd every two days and my other machines sync'd off of it.
This is actually happening on two boxes, although I created the problem on the second. It's my mythbox, and I cloned the box via rsync to make a myth-dev box so I can fix it without downtime. My wife is ready to kill me every time I break the mythbox. Portage didn't have the problem on myth-dev, and then I rsync'd over and the problem was created so I know it's some setting somewhere...
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