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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:20:45
Message-Id: 866381fa-6e06-3822-8d2e-ba3567f6f0d3@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67? by Mick
1 Okay, I'm working on that, but apparently, the *emerge --sync* I did a
2 few minutes ago left this link dangling:
3
4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   59 Jan 23  2018 make.profile ->
5 ../../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop
6
7 The contents of //usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64////is now:
8
9 $ lf /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/
10 17.0/  17.1/  eapi  package.use.mask  parent
11
12 Is my system now killed?
13
14
15 On 10/27/19 15:10, Mick wrote:
16 > On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:02:53 GMT n952162 wrote:
17 >> But ~amd64 means that it's unstable. I want to use a stable version of
18 >> portage.
19 >>
20 >> That's why I went to 2.3.69
21 > I beg your pardon, I copied the portage version from the title of your post
22 > erroneously.
23 >
24 > Let me start again:
25 >
26 > sys-apps/portage-2.3.76
27 >
28 > is the *current* stable version of portage, irrespective of what your present
29 > state of portage tree, which is out of sync with the mirrors, thinks.
30 >
31 > The way forward is to mark sys-apps/portage-2.3.76 as ~amd64 *temporarily*
32 > only, then emerge it, then re-sync and finally unmark sys-apps/portage-2.3.76
33 > as ~amd64 in your /etc.
34 >
35 > Following a resync your local tree will be brought up to date and portage will
36 > no longer require further updates, since you will have installed the latest
37 > stable version (as of this morning at least).
38 >
39 >> (Sorry, Mick, for the private msg - I always forget that thunderbird
40 >> replies directly, and that I have to re-enter the list every time)
41 > No problem. :-)
42 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>