On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote: > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are > built. One way to come around this issue is that when you sync your > portage, wait a day before you check what files to update, this way the > binary packages should have been built, but sure it's a pita.
You're right. I had set the sync-uri to mirror.bytemark.co.uk, which I got from the handbook. but I still had GENTOO_MIRRORS="http:// www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/" from an older installation. I've now set the mirror to bytemark; let's see if that helps. Thanks. -- Regards, Peter.
