Duncan wrote: > "John P. Burkett" <burk...@uri.edu> posted 49fcbc3f.4000...@uri.edu, > excerpted below, on Sat, 02 May 2009 17:33:51 -0400: > >> The bug is marked as fixed in 2.2_rc29 and 2.1.6.12. I'm using >> 2.1.6.11. When I do "emerge --search portage" the response indicates >> that 2.1.6.11 is the latest available. I suppose that means the latest >> stable version available. > > Did you emerge --sync before you did that emerge --search portage? If > the version was added after your last sync, which is likely if you > haven't synced in 24 hours since that's about how old the new portage is, > you obviously won't have the new version shown yet. > Thanks, Duncan. Yesterday I did eix-sync shortly before emerge --search portage. To see if a new portage version became available overnight, I just now did eix-sync and emerge --search portage. The results are the same; the latest version available version of sys-apps/portage is still listed as 2.1.6.11, which is the version I have installed.
I attempted to manually download the source file, and place it in distfiles, and then run emerge. Specifically, I downloaded texlive-module-collection-latexextra-2008.tar.lzma from http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/distfiles/?C=N%3BO=D and placed the file in /usr/portage/distfiles. Then I did "emerge texlive-latexextra". The response stated with >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1 [Errno 7] Argument list too long: /bin/bash -c touch "/usr/portage/distfiles/.__portage_test_write__" 2>/dev/null ; rval=$? ; rm -f "/usr/portage/distfiles/.__portage_test_write__" ; exit $rval and ended with !!! Couldn't download 'texlive-module-mcaption.source-2008.tar.lzma'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1/temp/build.log' >>> Failed to emerge dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1/temp/build.log' * Messages for package dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1: * Fetch failed for 'dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2008-r1/temp/build.log' Unsure what to try next, I'd appreciate any suggestions. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
