Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to copy. Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a emerge -auvDN world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync with the files you have on your disk. -- Neil Bothwick Success is making it to the top of the food chain! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to copy. Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a emerge -auvDN world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync with the files you have on your disk. Done, thanks festus -- I just want to break even. Richard Manuel pgp8dZE62Wegz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to copy. Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball in the root of the broken VM. Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a emerge -auvDN world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild I think what I did wrong in following the instuctions for repairing portage as described at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml was that I blindly just copied and pasted, thereby bringing in a way old version. I'm not sure, though (probably more because of too much Patron). But it didn't work. Thanks so much for your help! festus pgpSEYNqH01Qz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to copy. Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball in the root of the broken VM. -- Neil Bothwick What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
for better perf i use ext2 with some tweak mkfs.ext2 -I2048 -m0 /dev/myPartition I use sqlite in backend and eix for searching update the speed is now really excellent every thing could be found on wiki good luck On 3/17/08, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the cache in ~ 3 minutes now ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree like portage ... the filesystem just isn't quick enough there are some other things you can do like using xfs/jfs for /usr/portage/distfiles and what not, but that' just a start. First thing is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D John J. Foster wrote: | I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme | slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also | previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not | really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every | emerge command returns | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --info | Traceback (most recent call last): | File /usr/bin/emerge, line 31, in ? | import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types | File /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py, line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH | | I already tried | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml | but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! | | Any help greatly appreciated. | | Thanks, | festus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3dGY8hUIAnGfls4RApvUAJ9pK3wWqS5LpwvRtCOfzrItpxxtDgCgjdJm mgZu5SRDPda51qAuZtX58RE= =8DRz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
Chris Brennan wrote: SNIP First thing is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D No . Please share with us all how to make it faster. Is it classified top secret or something? ;-) Dale :-) :-) read a little humor in that by the way -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
Hi, another thing that might help is not generating the cache at all. It appears that we can get away with what is in /usr/portage/metadata/cache. I've put -metadata-transfer into FEATURES to tell portage to skip the Generating cache stuff, and added the following to my /etc/portage/modules: portdbapi.auxdbmodule = cache.metadata_overlay.database I don't guarantee anything, but I've been using this approach for a while (a year or so) and never had any problems. I also am using squashfs+aufs for my portage tree, which - apart from speeding things up here - has the nice little effect that /usr/portage now only takes up about 50MB in a .sqfs image. You will need to get aufs from the sunrise overlay, but if you are not comfortable doing so you can use squashfs+unionfs as explained in this gentoo-wiki article [1] If you intend to use aufs, Martin Väth (who is also the current maintainer of eix) has written a nifty little init-script for handling those images (see initscripts.tar.gz on [2]). HTH, Emil [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_VERY_small_Portage_Tree_with_SquashFS_and_UnionFS [2] http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vaeth/gentoo/index.html -- Emil Beinroth 83059 Kolbermoor | Germany Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. -- Oscar Wilde pgpIefaoI76sB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again! Thanks, festus pgpAMIgASTf6H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command returns [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --info Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 31, in ? import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types File /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py, line 7, in ? from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH I already tried http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, festus pgpZZ8JiUAAAG.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command returns [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --info Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 31, in ? import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types File /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py, line 7, in ? from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH I already tried http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, festus pgpNxTcJnQfWy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the cache in ~ 3 minutes now ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree like portage ... the filesystem just isn't quick enough there are some other things you can do like using xfs/jfs for /usr/portage/distfiles and what not, but that' just a start. First thing is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D John J. Foster wrote: | I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme | slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also | previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not | really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every | emerge command returns | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --info | Traceback (most recent call last): | File /usr/bin/emerge, line 31, in ? | import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types | File /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py, line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH | | I already tried | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml | but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! | | Any help greatly appreciated. | | Thanks, | festus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3dGY8hUIAnGfls4RApvUAJ9pK3wWqS5LpwvRtCOfzrItpxxtDgCgjdJm mgZu5SRDPda51qAuZtX58RE= =8DRz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
