On Sunday, 14 July 2024 13:22:14 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when
> > it can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then
> > put it back as it was for the rest of the system.
>
> Do you have PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS or whatever it's called set? That's
> caused me similar grief - it messed up my attempts to update my profile,
> it regularly messed up my virtualbox updates, etc etc.
Yes, I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=8 --autounmask=n --
keep-going --nospinner"
Nothing contentious there, I'd have thought.
Then I added this after Arve's advice, and after my problem arose:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --usepkg-exclude 'sys-apps/
portage'"
> And if you have to edit various environment variables in make.conf, you
> know you can override them on the command line?
>
> PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="" emerge virtualbox-modules
>
> as I had to do ...
Useful reminder; thanks.
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Regards,
Peter.
