On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself > > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them > > both so this error doesn't happen. > > I ran into this for the first time last week, and I tinkered for an > embarassingly long time before it dawned on me that simply emerging > portage and gentoolkit together was the answer. It does seem like a > bit of a bug when emerge tells you to run command "whatever", and when > you do emerge tells you it can't do "whatever".
You did better than me then. I unmerged gentoolkit, then updated portage then remerged gentoolkit. Bare minimum of thought. :) -- Regards, Peter.
