On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:30:58 Dale wrote: > > You may want to either sync again or run emerge --metadata one. I seem > > to recall running into this and it can't update the database without > > that link being correct. The metadata part should fix it. > > > > Not necessary. I just recreated the symlink to point to the correct > > profile. Not rocket science, even for someone like me who does not have > > a formal computer education. :-) > > I guess some changes have been made to portage. When I ran into this a > while back, it error'd out right after the sync process. I had to > create the new link the run emerge --metadata so that it could finish > processing the database which I guess is part two.
emerge --metadata is completely unrelated. You are probably speaking of one of the issues at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml See `man emerge` to see what --metadata does... -- Bo Andresen
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