Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-07 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > > I can think of 3 things, but more learned M/L contributors may add to these: > > 1. The SATA connection has come loose. With time and movement it can come > (slightly) adrift. Pushing it back in fully fixes this problem - also see No. > 2 below. > > 2. The physical connector's co

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 7 March 2019 10:10:53 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:31:27 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 10:12 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > [OT] > > > Evidence is mounting that the Atom box is in terminal decline. I get > > > things like batches

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:31:27 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 10:12 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > [OT] > > Evidence is mounting that the Atom box is in terminal decline. I get > > things like batches of files in the portage tree changing owner, and then > > when I corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/03/19 17:39, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Up to now, I've never had a HDD or SDD fail on me. :-) I hope that > when this does eventually happen, I'll be prepared. I don't think I've had one of mine fail. I have, however, done recovery jobs on two drives that did fail that I managed to revive lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Rich. I'd like to say hello again to everybody, just to mark that I'm still here and still using Gentoo, and thank people for (a lot of) help rendered in the past. My system, used mainly for SW development, has been stable and well behaved, with very occasional exceptions, for some while n

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:31 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > If it's just that the SSD is failing, then get a new one before > something important gets damaged and you have to redo the whole thing. IMO any kind of storage device should be treated as if it could fail at any time without warning. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Laurence Perkins
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 10:12 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 28 February 2019 15:47:41 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > > > In general it is usually simplest to just remove /usr/portage > > anytime > > you change the sync settings. At least until portage gets smarter > > about it. > > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 February 2019 15:47:41 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > In general it is usually simplest to just remove /usr/portage anytime > you change the sync settings. At least until portage gets smarter > about it. That works well on a sufficiently powerful box; it only took - oh, I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-02-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:41 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:43:13 GMT Davyd McColl wrote: > > > Well, that's pretty-much how git works -- that local repo was still pointing > > to the old remote. Updating your repos.conf won't change that as the old > > remote is st

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:43:13 GMT Davyd McColl wrote: > > On 2019/02/28 10:36:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I have a little server box on my LAN, which I use as a git server. I'm > > having a bit of trouble with it pro tem so I decided to switch the git > > sync source on this box. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-02-28 Thread Nils Freydank
I filed a bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/679040. Yes, currently you need to update your git config manually everytime you change your git remote.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-02-28 Thread Davyd McColl
On 2019/02/28 10:36:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a little server box on my LAN, which I use as a git server. I'm having a bit of trouble with it pro tem so I decided to switch the git sync source on this box. I removed the entry pointing to the local server in repos.conf/gentoo.c

[gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have a little server box on my LAN, which I use as a git server. I'm having a bit of trouble with it pro tem so I decided to switch the git sync source on this box. I removed the entry pointing to the local server in repos.conf/gentoo.conf and put in 'sync-uri = https://github.co