I've been NFS-exporting the portage treee from a 32-bit atom box to a chroot on my workstation, and it's worked well for years, if slowly.
Now when I try to do the same with a 64-bit celeron machine I'm having a problem getting portage to work. If the required distfile is already present, no problem, but otherwise, trying to fetch it just hangs. No errors, no status, no fetch log, no progress. Www-client/links works in the chroot as expected, so the network is set up all right; portage just can't use it. I've compared /etc/exports on the two clients; also the chroot setup scripts, /usr/portage permissions, the USE flags of nfs-utils and everything else I can think of. All identical apart from obvious things like 32/64 bits and network names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either. Any ideas, anyone? -- Regards, Peter.
