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On 10/27/19 10:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:36:00PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote |
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>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:23 PM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>>> I went 41 days without emerging (yeah, I know). Anyhow, emerge first |
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>>> wants me to update portage, but I run into problems. Can I safely |
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>>> unmerge gentoolkit and re-emerge it afterwards? |
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>> Its not part of @system, so should be fine. |
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> Thanks. I unmerged gentoolkit (0.4.6), updated portage, and |
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> re-emerged gentoolkit (0.4.6). Wierd that it comes back with the same |
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> version, but portage can't be updated when it's present. |
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>> Whenever i'm not sure I just quickpkg first so get it back with tar |
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>> if need be. |
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> That prompted me to dig deeper. According to |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/System_set_%28Portage%29 you can gat a |
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> listing of the system set with either of... |
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> emerge --pretend @system |
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> eix -c --system |
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You need to merge them together: `emerge -au1 gentoolkit portage`. Then |
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the error doesn't happen. |
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Dan |
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