Hi all,

I'm trying to run a binhost and just ran "emaint -f binhost" to ensure
the Packages file is correct, but when on a client machine I run....

emerge -puKD world

I get....

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
masked or don't exist:
sys-apps/file virtual/portage

I'm perplexed as sys-apps/file-5.03 and sys-apps/file-5.04 do exist, but
virtual/portage doesn't and I can't see any reference to it, although
the Packages file does say that portage "PROVIDES" virtual/portage.

Any ideas ?

Alan.

It's o.k sorted.

Alan.

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:44 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to run a binhost and just ran "emaint -f binhost" to ensure
> the Packages file is correct, but when on a client machine I run....
>
> emerge -puKD world
>
> I get....
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> masked or don't exist:
> sys-apps/file virtual/portage
>
> I'm perplexed as sys-apps/file-5.03 and sys-apps/file-5.04 do exist, but
> virtual/portage doesn't and I can't see any reference to it, although
> the Packages file does say that portage "PROVIDES" virtual/portage.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Alan.
>
>

On 05-03-2010 23:01:57 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> It's o.k sorted.

what was it?


--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 09:24 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 05-03-2010 23:01:57 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > It's o.k sorted.
>
> what was it?

Needed to pass -G to emerge.

Alan.