Updating old Gentoo box [solved]

darookee · Last edited by darookee on Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:48 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi!

I have a customer with an old gentoo installation (2004something) and I'm trying to update it. I allready reinstalled portage manually because I got these cannot-match-virtual-package-errors but now when I emerge portage it hangs here:

axelmasok · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 171

Seen this many times before.
Can't remember specific instructions to fix. You will find lots of posts on this.
As a general rule every time you emerge sync you emerge portage.
Check what profile you are using:
ls -la /etc/make.profile
If your using something too old it may be a good idea to note down the old one and link to a new one then try emergeing sandbox/portage again.
I am not a portage expert but there is always a way. If portage is broken enough then you can download off gentoo (somewhere magical) the actual portage binaries to update the system if portage is too old. I think it's called portage recovery or something like that - good luck.
AM

darookee · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:39 am Post subject:

I don't know whay exactly but this (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547044.html) does work... o_0

Thanks! :)

desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 8762

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads, as darookee indicated this problem was already solved by batfino in the topic "Can't compile anymore [solved]".