On Friday 17 August 2007 01:16:31 Dennis Taylor wrote: > I have been trying to update a gentoo system that I had not touched for > around a year. > I managed to mangle some things, and the latest was a complaint about a > file in portage. > I removed to offender and tried to re-emerge portage, but I am still > stuck. If anyone > knows a way I could force it to refresh portage files and/or installed > packages, I would > appreciate it. A pointer to the right place in the docs would be fine, > I just have not been > able to find it, and have lost several days fighting with it already.
There are some docs at [1] including [2] and [3]. If you need help for any specific problems you'll have to post real emerge output including whatever error messages you are struggling with... [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/ [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml -- Bo Andresen
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