[gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

[Jean Blignaut]

Hi   This morning I’ve found that I’m unable to use the emerge command. Any thing I try gives me the following error:       Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)   .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'   s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ........Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?     import portage   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7480, in ?     do_upgrade(mykey)   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7372, in do_upgrade     db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit)   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4683, in move_ent     origmatches=self.match(origcp,use_cache=0)   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4829, in match     return match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache))   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4134, in match_from_list     raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=')" % (mydep) KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (dev-perl/DateTime-0.2901) (try adding an '=')"   What do I do to fix this problem? These are both production servers so this is potentially a big problem!   Any help would be much appreciated   Regards Jean Blignaut