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From: Martin Holzer <mholzer@g.o>
To: Eugene Wong <disposable_eugene@×××××××.com>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to upgrade to portage-2.0.46-r12?
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:16:18
Message-Id: 004401c2d265$6a17f500$7730470a@wstw.wiennet.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to upgrade to portage-2.0.46-r12? by Eugene Wong
1 How about
2
3 #emerge -pu world --deep
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5 watch out old packages
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8 ----- Original Message -----
9 From: "Eugene Wong" <disposable_eugene@×××××××.com>
10 To: <agriffis@g.o>; <gentoo-dev@g.o>
11 Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:40 PM
12 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to upgrade to portage-2.0.46-r12?
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15 > >From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
16 > >
17 > >Eugene Wong wrote: [Mon Feb 10 2003, 05:07:21PM EST]
18 > > > I'm using portage-2.0.46-r9 & would like to ugrade to
19 > > > portage-2.0.46-r12. I've included a few lines from the beginning of
20 > > > the output, then cut out the middle part, then included a few lines
21 > > > from the end. Is this something to do with configurations in /etc? Is
22 > > > there anything else that I need to tell you? I must confess that I
23 > > > tried to edit make.globals, but I tried to put it back to the way that
24 > > > it was, & it still didn't help.
25 > >
26 > >Looks like something's wrong with your gcc installation. stddef.h
27 > >resides in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/include/stddef.h and
28 > >should be found by the compiler.
29 > >
30 > >You might try
31 > >
32 > > env-update
33 > > . /etc/profile
34 > >
35 > >and then try "emerge portage" again to find out what happens.
36 > <snip>
37 >
38 > I tried the above steps that you recommended, but no luck.
39 >
40 > However, I noticed that your compiler version is much newer than mine. I
41 > thought that I had upgraded, but apparently not. So, I upgraded the
42 compiler
43 > & its dependencies, & after that, I was able to update portage. In fact, I
44 > was finally able to compile skipstone, which I had been waiting for, for
45 > quite a while.
46 >
47 > Thank you, for all of your help.
48 >
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