Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-15 Thread Adrian
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:51:57 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: There are alternative ways to update portage that are more suited to your dial-up connection. ### Extracted from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153842 Download a snapshot (you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-11 Thread Adrian
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:51:57 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: There are alternative ways to update portage that are more suited to your dial-up connection. ### Extracted from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153842 Download a snapshot (you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:50:59 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen you mean emerge --metadata

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:01:11 +0300 Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 08 May 2006 02:18:11 -0500 Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: If you are using the default mirrors, change them. I ran into timeout errors all the time with the default mirrors. I think I used this one: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen you mean emerge --metadata don't you?! because that's all you need after a snapshot update. now everything I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try from there, but of course, I can't emerge anything . . . You can try adding RSYNC_TIMEOUT=500 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 5/8/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try from there, but of course, I can't emerge

[gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Adrian
Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen now everything I try to emerge I get: Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest From doing a google, it looks like i need to run emerge sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Adrian wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen now everything I try to emerge I get: Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest From doing a google, it looks like i need to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Adrian
On Sun, 07 May 2006 23:06:46 -0500 Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: I did a manual download once, I think the command you want is emerge metadata. May want to try that first. I'm also familiar with dial-up. I used to be on a slow 26K connection. It sucks. My sympathies