On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: > On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for > my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as > my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge > problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something. I > don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here.
I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnected box that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbols just like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch portage fixed it. You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you have done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --sync, checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
