exherbo couldn’t use the cache file

paludis -i –log-level debug vanilla-sources
Couldn’t use the cache file at ‘/var/cache/paludis/metadata/arbor/sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.25.20′: No such file or directory
credits for log-level: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4094803.html?sid=bf2437a0dde2b600f170031badb2b911#4094803
Solution:
PALUDIS_DO_NOTHING_SANDBOXY=1 paludis -i sydbox
paludis -i vanilla-sources
http://lists.exherbo.org/pipermail/exherbo-dev/2009-June/000492.html
PS. ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.30.4/ /usr/src/linux

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Exherboers?

After my article was published, there is ongoing discussion on #exherbo, how to call Exherbo developers. Quite funny:
[22:07] although “exherboers” is weird imo… i think we need a better name
[22:07] Exherbites?
[22:08] exherbots? exherbitionists? exherbiatches? (sorry, i just woke up…)
[22:08] exherbo users
[22:08] arkanoid_: Boring!
[22:08] no, users is a dirty [...]

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Exherbo community

Exherbo
Exherbo is specific and unique community/project among open source world.
They don’t want to be community like gentoo. As one of develoeprs, ciaranm says “community in the open source context means people who don’t contribute anything but think they have rights”. He even doesn’t want to call Exherbo a community. Instead he likes term “developer base” [...]

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exherbo – syslog can’t pass test with dev-lang/perl-5.10.0-r2:5.10::arbor

solution:
in /etc/paludis/package_mask.conf
>=dev-lang/perl-5.10.0-r2
then:
paludis -s syslog-ng
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
remove mask. update perl.
UPDATE:
Problem:
!!! Cannot overwrite file ‘/etc/env.d/alternatives/perl/5.10′ with directory ‘/var/tmp/paludis/build/dev-lang-perl-5.10.0-r2/image/etc/env.d/alternatives/perl/5.10′
Solution:
mv mv /etc/env.d/alternatives/perl/5.10 /root/
paludis -i1 perl
Problem:
eclectic config_data update 0.280801_perl-5.10
eclectic perl update 5.10
!!! Error: The given provider (5.10) does not exist
Solution:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.exherbo.devel/420/match=eclectic
cd /etc/env.d/alternatives
for i in *; do eclectic $i unset; done
#but i get errors: Can’t load module defaults, gcc_set, etc.
rm -r /etc/env.d/alternatives/*
paludis -i [...]

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