emerge -u system problem

[itoito]

I want to do an emerge -u system, in order to have all installed packages updated. I presume this is the correct way to do that?

Now when I do this I get an error like "couldn't find match for ~sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5 in update (likely old var/db/pkg entry)"

I suspect this package was automatically deleted or something when I did an emerge rsync. How can I fix this?

thanks in advance.

[pjp]

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[pjp]

OK, another possible issue may be that the /var/cache/edb/dep/ directory is missing. If it is, do a mkdir to create it. Let us know how you fix it.
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[itoito]

I edited the package.mask file and I put a # infront of >=syslibs/glibc-2.2.5-r6 that seemed to work

I think there should be a good faq on how the package system exactly works, anyone knows one (except for man emerge) ?

[rac]