On Sunday, 22 April 2018 06:13:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've been NFS-exporting the portage treee from a 32-bit atom box to a chroot > on my workstation, and it's worked well for years, if slowly. > > Now when I try to do the same with a 64-bit celeron machine I'm having a > problem getting portage to work. If the required distfile is already > present, no problem, but otherwise, trying to fetch it just hangs. No > errors, no status, no fetch log, no progress. > > Www-client/links works in the chroot as expected, so the network is set up > all right; portage just can't use it. > > I've compared /etc/exports on the two clients; also the chroot setup > scripts, /usr/portage permissions, the USE flags of nfs-utils and > everything else I can think of. All identical apart from obvious things > like 32/64 bits and network names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either. > > Any ideas, anyone?
Never mind. I've rebuilt the chroot from stage 3 and it seems to be working fine. I only asked in the hope of not having to do that. But then, it didn't take too long really. Hey-ho. -- Regards, Peter.
