----- Original Message ---- > From: Nils Holland <n...@tisys.org> > On 20:12 Sat 29 Jan , BRM wrote: > > A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed >hard > > > drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. > > Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of >portage > > > like a new install since it was just completely hosed, and the server is >back up > > > and working. However, now my desktop and laptop are both having problems. >They > > > sync just fine against the server, but I get a series of errors about not >having > > > various ebuilds in the manifest files - so many that I can't emerge > > anything > > > (even portage). > > I believe you will already have checked this, but anyways: > > I once upon a time experienced a similar issue, which was caused by the fact >that for some reason, I was only syncing new / modfied files from the source >to >my local portage tree, and not deleting no longer existent (on the source) >files from the local tree. This resulted in emerge complaining about various >ebuilds not being found. > > I was kind of shocked at first, then found my error, and on "properly" >(including deletes) syncing with my portage source everything immediately >started working fine again on the local (destination) machine. > > But again, I believe it's highly unprobable that this is your problem, > because >if you synced "correctly" before your server had to be re-setup, I would >believe that you're doing it correctly now as well, at least I can't see what >should have changed concering the sync due to the act of replacing the >server... >
May be I didn't get the server back up right? Not sure. Any how...the primary issue was resolved once I "deleted" the server's portage mirror and than ran rsync again to grab a fresh copy. I'm pretty sure it would have to be how I rsync'd the mirror since I lost my mirroring script the old hard drive died. I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct - I'll check into that more this evening. Once I get it right, I'll restore it do doing the daily mirror syncs again. Now I just have to get past all the issues coming up in the updates and rebuilds, but that was to be expected. Thanks! Ben
