86202 – Emerge System reports no packages...

Bug 86202 - Emerge System reports no packages...

Summary: Emerge System reports no packages...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High blocker (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers

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Reported:	2005-03-21 17:43 UTC by Pier Fumagalli
Modified:	2005-03-22 03:46 UTC (History)
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Description Pier Fumagalli 2005-03-21 17:43:58 UTC

As of right now (timestamp.chk reports "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:50:01 +0000") emerge system reports no packages on a brand new machine while installing from stage-1.

To reproduce:

# tar -xvjpf stage1-x86-2004.3.tar.bz2
# tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20041202.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
# . /etc/profile
# emerge --pretend system
    [this works normally listing 100 or so packages]
# emerge sync
    [this updates to today's emerge]
# emerge --pretend system
    [this reports nothing to merge]
# 

Weird, huh? I've installed around 25 gentoo boxes now, and I've _never_ seen this happening. I'm starting to think that after having done it so many times, I'm starting not to see part of the documentation.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Pier Fumagalli 2005-03-22 03:46:22 UTC

Turns out that our internal RSYNC mirror got corrupted. Syncing from the core servers fixed the problem.

Sorry for the noise (and if you see lotsa rsync today from 62.140.213.0/24, please don't ban us!)