On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync > instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice > :-) > > I would not have thought so because it's all done in cron jobs thrice > per week, giving me reports via email. > > However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two > separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable > that they got out of step somehow. I've unified them, and hope > things go better now.
Yeah, that's probably it then. Doing an emerge at randomly selected times will cause i in about 60 or so to fall in that hour window :-) Any particular reason you run two separate jobs and not just eix-sync (which does both in sequence)? alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list