Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

[Roger Mason]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:

>>
>> Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more
>> up-to-date install CD.  I'm currently installing from 2008.0_beta2,
>> so far without any problems.
>
> For the record, this turns out to be a fairly straightforward blocker. A
> recent version of portage uses new features in a recent bash, and
> Alex's suggestion will work just fine. I recently had to update 10+ old
> machines around this entirely trouble free.
>
> But using a more recent CD is probably the better idea, it's entirely
> possible to manoeuvre through two years of updates, but it's kinda
> pointless if you have a better base system at hand :-)

For the record, the installation was painless and fast with
2008.0_beta2.  My only reason for using an old install initially CD was to
retain compatibility with the older gcc versions on my distcc compile
farm.  As it turned out, that was not a problem at all.

Thanks to all.

Roger
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