Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2006 10:02:25 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: you should try the ~x86 version of portage which has many improvements: $ echo sys-apps/portage ~x86 /etc/portage/package.use $ emerge portage Just a question, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread leszek
Forgive my ignorance, but what is RSYNC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync basically, portage use rsync to update the information on packages (ebuilds) in /usr/portage (with emerge --sync) If anything, this is a indicator that I need to try and contribute to the portage project... at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread leszek
oops there was a little typo: $ echo sys-apps/portage ~x86 /etc/portage/package.use should be: $ echo sys-apps/portage ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It doesn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, leszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but what is RSYNC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync basically, portage use rsync to update the information on packages (ebuilds) in /usr/portage (with emerge --sync) If anything, this is a indicator that I need to try and

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 May 2006 10:02:25 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: you should try the ~x86 version of portage which has many improvements: $ echo sys-apps/portage ~x86 /etc/portage/package.use $ emerge portage Just a question, but there's got to be a reason why it's still in ~x86. Yes, it's less

[gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This has

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. No, it is not. I've found (after much

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2006, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:47 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: the new, working kernel... it rewrites symlinks to the new kernel. BTW, Only if you specifically do a USE=symlink emerge gentoo-sources No, that controls the /usr/src/linux symlink to the sources. The /boot/vmlinuz symlink is

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:47 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: the new, working kernel... it rewrites symlinks to the new kernel. BTW, Only if you specifically do a USE=symlink emerge gentoo-sources No, that controls the /usr/src/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: I loaded the configuration file from my old kernel and then just make make install to use genkernel, you have to call

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Susbauer
he copied the config from his old kernel, it is not using the default options and thus *should* work just fine. Yeah, I missed that line. You're right. But he didn't installed the new kernel, and alsa-driver, ndiswrapper, nvidia drivers and a lot of other stuff claim a new compile after a

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It doesn't have to look, he used the Gentoo installer, and so, it IS

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he copied the config from his old kernel, it is not using the default options and thus *should* work just fine. Yeah, I missed that line. You're right. But he didn't installed the new kernel, and alsa-driver, ndiswrapper, nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he isn't because he used the installer and thus use genkernel, hmm, its like the third time I'll say that, so, I'll stop and report you all to read the complete thread. It doesn't really matter how many times you say it, the OP did *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 Simply a portage snapshot, maybe the one you used to install Gentoo in the first place? Take a look at