On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Got it, you hit the bug 340899 and its already fixed, just apply the patch >> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=c54c1af789b306a85e9d7e79fb54f02a05346616 >> >> -- >> Fatih >> >> > > Thanks - I got the patch and that seems to have fixed eix-sync. > > Should anyone else run into this I did the following: > > Right click and save the patch file on the link provided by Fatih > > cd /usr/lib64/portage > patch -p1 --dry-run <Patch_Name > patch -p1 <Patch_Name > > and then things started working again. > > Note that when I finished the sync and emerged the newer version of > portage I got messages I had not seen before about colliding with a > couple of files. Those collisions were the files modified by the > patch. > > Many thanks Fatih! > > Cheers, > Mark >
Yw. Thanks for posting step-by-step solution for others' future reference. -- Fatih
