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From: "Zac Medico (zmedico)" <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc: manually-fixing-portage.xml
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:28:04
Message-Id: E1IY8pQ-0005la-0f@stork.gentoo.org
1 zmedico 07/09/19 23:19:32
2
3 Modified: manually-fixing-portage.xml
4 Log:
5 Recommend `emerge --metadata` when upgrading from portage versions less than 2.1.
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.8 xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
9
10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml?rev=1.8&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml?rev=1.8&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
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14 Index: manually-fixing-portage.xml
15 ===================================================================
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.7
18 retrieving revision 1.8
19 diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8
20 --- manually-fixing-portage.xml 30 May 2007 23:54:07 -0000 1.7
21 +++ manually-fixing-portage.xml 19 Sep 2007 23:19:31 -0000 1.8
22 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
23 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
24 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml,v 1.7 2007/05/30 23:54:07 genone Exp $ -->
25 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml,v 1.8 2007/09/19 23:19:31 zmedico Exp $ -->
26 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
27
28 <guide link="/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml">
29 @@ -99,6 +99,13 @@
30 <path>cnf/make.globals</path> back into <path>/etc</path>, otherwise
31 portage might behave in strange ways.
32 </note>
33 +<note>
34 +If the previous version of portage was less than 2.1 then you should now run
35 +<c>emerge --metadata</c> before continuing to the next step. This is necessary
36 +in order to convert the ebuild metadata to the new format that is used by
37 +portage 2.1 and above. It is okay to run this command even if you are not sure
38 +what the previous version of portage was.
39 +</note>
40
41 <p>
42 Now you should have a working portage install again. To ensure a consistent
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