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From: Jeremy Olexa <olexa@××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:51:57
Message-Id: 445F4B88.3030601@cs.umn.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails by Teresa and Dale
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4 Teresa and Dale wrote:
5 > Denny Schierz wrote:
6 >
7 >> hi,
8 >>
9 >> i have two very old gentoo boxes and i can't upgrade them. After a sync,
10 >> the default profile 2004.0 was deleted and know i can't do anything with
11 >> portage:
12 > You may want to try emerge portage. I think I ran into this once before
13 > and that fixed it. There is also a portage rescue tarbal somewhere that
14 > you can put on to rescue it. I did that once before too but I can't
15 > recall where it is right now. It's on the Gentoo site somewhere.
16 >
17 > Dale
18 > :-)
19
20 Any reason you don't want to upgrade them to the newest profile? I would
21 just symlink the make.profile to the 2006.0 profile and then go from
22 there following the appropriate install guides..maybe that will help?
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