Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that > appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob > looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with > what portage is looking for and pushing those packages out to repos. > > I've already forgotten the other 5 or so packages but the current one > holding up emerge is eject-2.1.5.tar.gz. > > It appears to be standing in the way of installing a number of other X > related packages. > > Is there a current problem with packages being available? > > If so then how can I remove it as a depandency? It seem unlikely that > eject would really prevent X from running but there appears no easy > way to avoid it.
I found eject on my own and put in distfiles... then emerged, but I'm having several failures with emerge not finding pkgs. Did that with several other packages as well. I have several mirrors listed in /etc/make.conf but in some cases it seems emerge tries only one and when it fails... emerge just stops. Isn't it supposed to walk thru all my list of mirrors? Or is there something I have to set to make that happen? I've even hit a few (fonts) where the downloaded package does not match the size emerge expects... again it just fails instead of trying the other hosts in the list. I don't think I've ever seen a failure on size from a listed mirror before.
