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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:12:32
Message-Id: 2237491.9sjkX7Wf5V@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update. by Grant Edwards
1 On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself
4 > > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them
5 > > both so this error doesn't happen.
6 >
7 > I ran into this for the first time last week, and I tinkered for an
8 > embarassingly long time before it dawned on me that simply emerging
9 > portage and gentoolkit together was the answer. It does seem like a
10 > bit of a bug when emerge tells you to run command "whatever", and when
11 > you do emerge tells you it can't do "whatever".
12
13 You did better than me then. I unmerged gentoolkit, then updated portage then
14 remerged gentoolkit. Bare minimum of thought. :)
15
16 --
17 Regards,
18 Peter.

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update. Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update. Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>