on Sunday 09/21/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:32:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: > > > Same Problem here on amd64. > > > > > > John covici wrote: > > > | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following > > > | error from update-eix: > > > | > > > | Reading Portage settings .. > > > | Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. > > > | [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) > > > | Reading 50%terminate called after throwing an instance of > > > | 'std::out_of_range' > > > | what(): basic_string::compare > > > | Aborted > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238216 > > Further workaround: > The problem is apparently caused by peculiar version numbers in > media-fonts/ja-ipafonts > > Delete $PORTDIR/metadata/cache/media-fonts/ja-ipafonts* > and rerun update-eix. It will complete. > > The metadata files will be replaced on the next sync by which time there > will > hopefully be an update that fixes the underlying problem.
After my last message I saw that and a plan to release a 13.5 which should fix the problem, so I may do that as well. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]