On 2019-10-14, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey <[email protected]> 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.
That was pretty much what I did when "tinkering", except unmerging
gentoolkit caused some other problem that I had to work around before
I could update portage. Towards the end of the process I finally
realized what I should have done. The next three systems I updated
went a bit quicker.
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