> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > Sent: 06 January 2006 10:40 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge sync > > > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:35:03 +0100, ddup1 wrote: > > > hi > > > > why emerge sync is sometime very long, at the step update > portage cache, > > sometime it takes 1mn and sometime lot longer ? > > Portage problem. Will be better next release I hear. Search > the forums and > search the newsgroup for portage, metadata, cache for more info. Most > often, hangs at 50-51% while redoing KDE. Defrag or moving > /usr/portage to > its own partition has been known to help. Read some of the posts.
My experience has been that defraging /usr/portage brought enormous speed up, but just once or twice. Soon after the darn thing slowed down again. Looking forward to the next portage version. :-) -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
