On 05/04/2015 11:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Today's routine update included dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 and two perl virtuals. > Since emerging those portage has stopped working: perl-cleaner gives it a > list of 71 packages to emerge but portage does nothing with them - it just > exits silently. Then perl-cleaner lists some hundreds of files that it can't > do anything with. > > What's going on here? > > I've restored from last week's backup and added the offending perl packages > to package.mask, but is that the right thing to do? >
When I occasionally run into bizarre weirdness like this, I usually wait one hor, re-sync and try again. If it still fails, then go looking further. Significant updates to the CVS tree are not atomic and every now and then you can do a sync while a dev is making his own updates. Especially in the light that it all works fine for Mick. If you use a third party tree mirror, you can also update against the master at rsync.gentoo.org to get the very latest tree. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
