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On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:30:58 Dale wrote: |
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> > You may want to either sync again or run emerge --metadata one. I seem |
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> > to recall running into this and it can't update the database without |
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> > that link being correct. The metadata part should fix it. |
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> > Not necessary. I just recreated the symlink to point to the correct |
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> > profile. Not rocket science, even for someone like me who does not have |
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> > a formal computer education. :-) |
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> I guess some changes have been made to portage. When I ran into this a |
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> while back, it error'd out right after the sync process. I had to |
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> create the new link the run emerge --metadata so that it could finish |
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> processing the database which I guess is part two. |
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emerge --metadata is completely unrelated. You are probably speaking of one of |
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the issues at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml |
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See `man emerge` to see what --metadata does... |
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Bo Andresen |
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