On 08/12/2016 08:26 AM, hw wrote: >> >> Try the other suggestions first -- but as a last resort -- you can >> always grab a new stage3 that should contain an updated version of >> portage and simply overwrite the portage files on your machine. A >> quickpkg from another Gentoo machine (or the liveCD?) would also work. >> > > I´m trying to update a production server here. If I overwrite the whole > system, who knows what might break. I can take it down for a few > hours in the evening unless I want to work over night, which is not > really an option. >
Not the whole system, only portage. It should still be your last resort, but on the bad-idea scale it's only a 1 or a 2.
