[PALUDIS] Support thread (current v. 0.22.2) - Part 2

[stingo]

I notice that bash-completion does not work. How is it supposed to work? I type couple of letters press tab and nothing happens. Thanks

[nikaya]

I notice that bash-completion does not work. How is it supposed to work? I type couple of letters press tab and nothing happens. Thanks

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_TAB-comp ... g_packages

[Paapaa]

Ok, I entered "sudo paludis -pi world" and got:

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Building target list... 
Building dependency list...paludis@1174689075: [WARNING] In program paludis -ip world:
  ... When performing install action from command line:
  ... When executing install task:
  ... When adding PackageDepSpec 'media-video/mplayer':
  ... When fetching versions of 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo:
  ... When loading versions for 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo:
  ... Skipping entry '/usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r2.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo'
paludis@1174689075: [WARNING] (same context) Skipping entry '/usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r3.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo'

What might it mean? This is with Paludis 0.20.2 and amd64 system.

[staffan]

Ok, I entered "sudo paludis -pi world" and got:

[snip]

What might it mean? This is with Paludis 0.20.2 and amd64 system.

I don't have the answer, unfortunately, but I get the same with Paludis 0.20.2 on an x86 system so I'm interested as well.

[Edit: grammar...]

[nikaya]

Ok, I entered "sudo paludis -pi world" and got:

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Building target list... 
Building dependency list...paludis@1174689075: [WARNING] In program paludis -ip world:
  ... When performing install action from command line:
  ... When executing install task:
  ... When adding PackageDepSpec 'media-video/mplayer':
  ... When fetching versions of 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo:
  ... When loading versions for 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo:
  ... Skipping entry '/usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r2.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo'
paludis@1174689075: [WARNING] (same context) Skipping entry '/usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r3.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo'

What might it mean? This is with Paludis 0.20.2 and amd64 system.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-39 ... ml#3975156

[Paapaa]

Ok, I entered "sudo paludis -pi world" and got:

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Building target list... 
Building dependency list...paludis@1174689075: [WARNING] In program paludis -ip world:
  ... When performing install action from command line:
  ... When executing install task:
  ... When adding PackageDepSpec 'media-video/mplayer':
  ... When fetching versions of 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo:
  ... When loading versions for 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo:
  ... Skipping entry '/usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r2.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo'
paludis@1174689075: [WARNING] (same context) Skipping entry '/usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r3.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo'

What might it mean? This is with Paludis 0.20.2 and amd64 system.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-39 ... ml#3975156

And here is the exact reason:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166522

[malteo]

Hi, I installed paludis, read the migration guide, configured everything in /etc/paludis and already did my first 'paludis -pi world'
I have two custom made ebuilds in the old /usr/local/portage and I'd like to use them with paludis too, so I wrote this local.conf

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location = /usr/local/portage/
master_repository = gentoo
cache = /var/empty
names_cache = ${location}/.cache/names
format = ebuild

It works correctly but I get lots of this warning

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paludis@1174739129: [QA] Couldn't open repo_name file in '/usr/local/portage/profiles/', falling back to a generated name (ignore this message if you have yet to sync this repository).

when syncing.
What's the correct local repository file configuration for paludis?

[nikaya]

What's the correct local repository file configuration for paludis?

Maybe this could help:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portag ... positories

[truc]

This has already been answered billion times..
mkdir /usr/local/portage/profiles
and name it as you want
echo "my_supa_overlay" > /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

[malteo]

Thank you very much, I'll opt for a more humble "local-overlay"
It's the first time in four years that I've asked a "already been answered billion times" question

[nikaya]

I couldn't create the sunrise overlay with Paludis. That was my /etc/paludis/repositories/sunrise.conf:

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location = ${ROOT}/usr/local/overlays/sunrise
master_repository = gentoo
distdir = /usr/portage/distfiles
sync = http://gentoo-sunrise.org/svn/reviewed
cache = /var/empty
format = ebuild
importance = 10
names_cache = ${location}/.cache/names
write_cache = /var/cache/paludis/metadata

Afterwards I ran

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paludis -s x-sunrise

and got

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# paludis -s x-sunrise
Sync x-sunrise

Unhandled exception:
  * In program paludis -s x-sunrise:
  * When performing sync action from command line:
  * When executing sync task:
  * When syncing repository 'x-sunrise':
  * Could not find repository 'x-sunrise' (paludis::NoSuchRepositoryError)

I created /usr/local/overlays/sunrise by hand and not - no chance.Then I used layman to do the job:

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layman -f -a sunrise

It created the overlay in /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise.So I changed the location entry in /etc/paludis/repositories/sunrise.conf to

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location = ${ROOT}/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise

and it worked fine after a

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paludis -s sunrise

Very strange

[karafeka]

Is there an option to show packages size when running paludis with -pi ?

[adekoba]

Any information on how to fix the mplayer suffix error or are we stuck with looking at it every time paludis runs?

[creidiki]

Yeah, its getting a bit annoying but I'm not touching it myself cause I'll bork something for sure

[kernelOfTruth]

paludis seems to have problems with registering installed ebuilds into the world file inside /var/lib/portage

e.g. gnome-base/gnome, www-client/mozilla-firefox are missing & I had to add them by hand

any idea why?

I also get messages that ebuilds aren't used by any package (or something like that)

update:

just found out that almost half of my installed apps aren't registered in world-file

WTF

I hope this is fixed with 0.20.2 ...

come on, this is supposed to a replacement for portage & save you time, not make you work more if you don't have time

update2:

just found out 2 common "problems" are:

1) you forget to make a link to portage's world-file

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ln -s /var/lib/portage/world /var/db/pkg/world

2) paludis doesn't register installed packages after every install, so if the install gets interrupted & you continue later manually without pasting paludis' output, those packages already installed won't get installed

[Paapaa]

come on, this is supposed to a replacement for portage & save you time, not make you work more if you don't have time

Remember: you are using Paludis 0.20. It takes time until it can be called 1.0. If you don't want to take any risks you should wait until Paludis v1.0 is out. Paludis is still under heavy development and in beta-phase evethough it works flawlessly most of the time.

Of course the best thing is to keep on using it and report all the bugs you my find either here or straight to Paludis tracker:

http://paludis.pioto.org/trac/

More users testing will probably help to nail the bugs faster.

BTW, did Paludis complain about missing newline in world file? Not sure if it related at all but just a thought. Or what does Paludis say when it is updating the world file? Any errors? What version were you using?

[shpena]

@John.Doe

you might want to check out what paludis --list-sync-protocols does for your overlay
so

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location = ${ROOT}/usr/local/overlays/sunrise
master_repository = gentoo
distdir = /usr/portage/distfiles
sync = http://gentoo-sunrise.org/svn/reviewed
cache = /var/empty
format = ebuild
importance = 10
names_cache = ${location}/.cache/names
write_cache = /var/cache/paludis/metadata

should be

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svn+http://gentoo-sunrise.org/svn/reviewed

notice the svn before the http. it took me a while of playing around with different combinations until it finally did it. i dont think i even had to make the directory
Hope this helps.

Edit: While paludis -s x-sunrise works in creating the /usr/local/overlays/sunrise directory, if you are using names_cache like you have in your sunrise.conf then you should

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mkdir -p /usr/local/overlays/sunrise/.cache/names

before you sync. On this I'm not too sure, but I had to make it since it gave me an error

Unhandled exception:
* In program paludis --log-level qa --regenerate-installable-cache:
* When performing cache regeneration action from command line:
* When generating repository names cache at '/usr/local/overlays/sunrise/.cache/names/sunrise':
* mkdir '/usr/local/overlays/sunrise/.cache/names' failed: No such file or directory (paludis::FSError)
* Done regenerating cache for installable repositories

right after i sync'd for the first time.
So there you have it. Hope this helps. To the devs or super paludis users, please correct me if I'm wrong. I just started using this myself (Fiordland install for base and paludis for the rest)

[creidiki]

Yeah, you have to create those directories but I suggest this instead:

create the file /etc/paludis/repository_defaults.conf

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# Paludis repository defaults configuration file

write_cache = /var/cache/paludis/metadata
names_cache = /var/cache/paludis/names
provides_cache = /var/cache/paludis/provides

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mkdir /var/cache/paludis
mkdir /var/cache/paludis/metadata
mkdir /var/cache/paludis/names

and remove all write_cache, names_cache, provides_cache entries from your /etc/paludis/repositories/*.conf files

provides cache only exists for the "installed" repo so that's a single file in /var/cache/paludis, metadata and names caches exist as /var/cache/paludis/<cache_type>/<repo_name> files, so you can keep them all handy in a central location.

[creidiki]

i get

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/usr/libexec/paludis/hooks/sync_post/log.bash: line 102: //var/log/paludis.log: Permission denied

when I try to sync with a userpriv'd user.

[dleverton]

Please report bugs to trac, or use the paludis-user mailing list if you're not sure. Any reports made here will likely not been seen or fixed by Paludis developers.

[creidiki]

Well, I'm not sure if its a bug, I might have just borked something, so I'm asking if anyone else gets it too 1st

[dleverton]

Well, I'm not sure if its a bug, I might have just borked something, so I'm asking if anyone else gets it too 1st

Heh, that wasn't directed at anyone in particular.

[shpena]

A quick question:
When doing synchronizing my system, after it downloads everything it begins to write the metadata, this message comes:

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* Writing metadata ...
   *    gentoo: !!
   *    paludis-extras: ok
   *    sunrise: ok

What does the !! mean?

Thanks.

[zxy]

Kuroi Ryu
it is the output from patched portage-utils.
it is nothing to be scared of. But i'll leave it to truc to explain (probably tomorrow), as he maintains the patched portage-utils.

Sorry for a bad answer, but I'm dead tired and sleepy now.

[luqas]

A quick question:
When doing synchronizing my system, after it downloads everything it begins to write the metadata, this message comes:

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* Writing metadata ...
   *    gentoo: !!
   *    paludis-extras: ok
   *    sunrise: ok

What does the !! mean?

Thanks.

Set the write_cache = /var/empty for you gentoo repository. Gentoo does its own write caching.