you need to update portage

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roadrash
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you need to update portage

Post by roadrash »

When i ran emerge sync i got the message that a new version was available and that it was recomended i upgrade.
I searched the gentoo forum & others and found that I need to log in as root & type the following to update portage:

cd /user/portage
scripts/bootstrap.sh

I tried this and it seemed to work although it took a long time.
when finished I ran emerge sync again and the update message had gone so i guess it was sucessful.

Just to be sure can someone confirm what I did was correct and was it really important to update portage
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Post by eentelf »

i ran

#emerge -up system

# emerge -u system

#etc-update

not saying it's right or wrong but that got me there too.
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Post by roadrash »

Yeah you might be right cos i tried the update to portage on my 2nd xbox using the same method as b4 and this time it took 8 hours and still gave me the message that portage needs updating and i had to type "emerge portage" to get rid of it so the: cd /user/portage & scripts/bootstrap.sh doesnt seem to be the answer. funny how it worked in less than an hour the first time.
I think i'll redoo gentoox on one of my xboxes and try the method you suggest.
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Post by roadrash »

Just tried it on my second xbox and eentelf you were spot on, it works a lot faster (about 7 mins).

Thanks a lot mate
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Post by ShALLaX »

cd /user/portage
scripts/bootstrap.sh

^^^^ God no, dont run that!!! You only run that if youre building from stage 1 (which no one is because ive already done it!). To update portage, just run "emerge -u portage"
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