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Bug 86202

Summary: Emerge System reports no packages...
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Pier Fumagalli <pier>
Component: EverythingAssignee: Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

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!)