walt <w41...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 07/03/2011 03:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I'm getting output from emerge -v emacs-vcs like this:
>> 
>> 
>>  * ERROR: app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.9999-r1 failed (unpack phase):
>>  *   bzr.eclass: can't pull from bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
>> 
>> I tried 
>>   bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/ 
>> by hand and had no problems with it.
>
> I've never used a 9999 version that pulls from bzr, but I have used
> some that pull from git and (yuk) svn.  The cloned repos were stored
> (I think) in /usr/portage/disfiles/git (or svn) -- or something similar.
>
> If you can find a bzr repo in your /usr/portage/distfiles, try deleting
> it.  My memory is a bit fuzzy here, but you get the general idea, I hope.

Haaa... yep, that worked .. (deleting bzr-src)

I was suprized to learn the repo was created in /usr/portage/distfiles

I thought it would happen in /var/tmp.  Well, now I know... thanks.

If you happen to do an `emerge emacs-vcs' be prepared for a really
looonnnnggg wait on bzr.  It is the absolute slowest thing going to
check a module out from.


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