I have the same issue, I'm just ignoring the upgrade portage message for now, but it's disconcerting. I'm very good about keeping my config files updated...
Lloyd On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:36:21 -0800 Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 04:44 pm, Roger Miliker wrote: > > 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 > > Roger: Thank you very very much for taking the moment to even offer a guess. > I'm sorry to report however that I am still in the same situation as visible > from the following: > > poretz root # etc-update > Scanning Configuration files... > Exiting: No files to work on! > poretz root # grep portage /etc/group > portage::250:portage > poretz root # grep portage /etc/passwd > portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false > poretz root # > > > > > > > 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 No outdated packages were found on your system.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 # > > -- > *n?x esquire at large > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
