Trying to emerge today after emerge-webrsync yesterday and getting this:
root@ad-pc root # emerge --pretend griffle These are the packages that I would merge, in order: !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink? !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?
I'm fed up with Gentoo, it needs constant nursing and things randomly break. The printer driver died a few weeks ago and none of my kicking has brought it back to life. Ok, it is a high maintenance hackers distribution and I am admitting defeat, I want a lamers out-of-the-box working system.
When/if I get the time I'm changing distribution. I want a fast, compact X-less server system. I'll probably go to Debian Sarge as I liked apt.
Gentoo annoyances:
- Having to build everything means if you want something you might get it tomorrow if the build doesn't break
- env-update/etc-update and studying diffs in config files is error prone and tedious
- emerge generates huge amounts of logging. If I do it in an at job the output emails cause timeouts in squirrelmail and thunderbird takes a few minutes to display them.
Now I think about it, I abandoned SUSE because of the poor rpm support and SUSE's sloooow servers meant I had to build everything.
Peter's Moblog
I had your same problem while emerging at work behind a firewall. I solved it by doing an emerge sync. Alternatively you can try again now. The problem is with the snapshot packaging, so don't worry. Nothing wrong on your end.