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On Friday 14 March 2003 12:05, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:
> 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...
I think this was a bug in portage. It looks like it's been fixed in -r10:
12 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> emerge: Added more
conditions on rsync -- Proper error detection. Rsync failures will not
cause a cache regeneration. Portage no longer considers masked portages
candidates for 'An update to portage'.
That last bit seems about right...
Alex
> 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 #
> >
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