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 No outdated packages were found on your system.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
