On Friday 14 March 2003 01:15, Steven wrote: > Can someone please help determine what I'm missing in this equation > in order to head the "high recommendation" to update portage, or > whether I should just suggest to portage that "these are not the droids > you're looking for. Move along. Move along." > > poretz root # emerge sync > ... > > >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! > > * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended > * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. > * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files. >
My guess: You need to 'etc-update' especially add portage group by adding these lines into /etc/group: portage::250:portage and /etc/passwd: portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false Hope this helps Roger > poretz root # emerge -up world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/readline-4.2a-r2 [4.2a-r1] > > poretz root # emerge -u portage > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... > >>> > >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > > * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. > > poretz root # -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
