Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:37:53 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Okay, I'm working on that, but apparently, the *emerge --sync* I did a > few minutes ago left this link dangling: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   59 Jan 23  2018 make.profile -> > ../../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop Use

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
Okay, I'm working on that, but apparently, the *emerge --sync* I did a few minutes ago left this link dangling: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   59 Jan 23  2018 make.profile -> ../../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop The contents of //usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64is

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
Please don't top-post in this group. On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:44:28 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 10/27/19 15:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:03:45 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> On 10/27/19 14:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> What does eix tell you after 'emerge --sync &&

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
$ eix -e portage [?] sys-apps/portage Available versions:  *2.3.6 *2.3.8 ~*2.3.13 *2.3.13-r1 ~*2.3.14 ~*2.3.16 *2.3.19-r1 ~*2.3.20 ** {build doc epydoc +ipc +native-extensions python_targets_pypy python_targets_python2_7 python_targets_python3_4 python_targets_python3_5

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:03:45 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 10/27/19 14:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > What does eix tell you after 'emerge --sync && eix-update'? > > * To update portage, run 'emerge --oneshot portage' now. No, that's not from eix; it's from portage. Now that you've updated

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
On 10/27/19 14:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: What does eix tell you after 'emerge --sync && eix-update'?  * To update portage, run 'emerge --oneshot portage' now.

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
Right.  But I can't --sync. But beyond that, why does emerge say there are no ebuilds when there are? On 10/27/19 14:32, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:21:04 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:11:56 GMT n952162 wrote: When I enter: sudo emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:02:53 GMT n952162 wrote: > But ~amd64 means that it's unstable. I want to use a stable version of > portage. > > That's why I went to 2.3.69 I beg your pardon, I copied the portage version from the title of your post erroneously. Let me start again:

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
But ~amd64 means that it's unstable.  I want to use a stable version of portage. That's why I went to 2.3.69 (Sorry, Mick, for the private msg - I always forget that thunderbird replies directly, and that I have to re-enter the list every time) On 10/27/19 14:48, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 27

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:21:04 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:11:56 GMT n952162 wrote: > > When I enter: > >sudo emerge =sys-apps/portage-2.3.69 > > > > I get the response: > >emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=sys-apps/portage-2.3.69". > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:11:56 GMT n952162 wrote: > When I enter: > >sudo emerge =sys-apps/portage-2.3.69 > > I get the response: > >emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=sys-apps/portage-2.3.69". > > but this version is listed on >

[gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
When I enter:   sudo  emerge  =sys-apps/portage-2.3.69 I get the response:   emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=sys-apps/portage-2.3.69". but this version is listed on packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/portage as being an available Version