Hi, I had the same problem today. Maybe the gentooers working on a new upgrade or so. This happens from time to time.
I circumvented this by: # emerge -i app-editors/vim-6.2-r3 # emerge -u world U can do system if u want - of course. Ceers Frank On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:25, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > Hi, > > having not made an update for ~4 weeks I wanted to run it now, so I did > this: > > 1. emerge sync > > -> this went fine, but then told me I should update portage now, ok so > > 2. emerge --update portage > > -> went fine too, no problems no complaints, so next was > > 3. emerge --update world > > -> strange enough this did not bring me any new updates, so I made a > > 4. emerge --update system > > -> HERE comes trouble: it tries and tries but does not suceed: > the servers would either tell it > "No such file `vim-6.2.098-patches.tar.bz2´." > or they would say > "No such directory `mirrors/gentoo/distfiles´." > and it tries a LOT of servers and, no, I did not mainpulate the servers > list after my last (successful) update. > > So what might go wrong here, how can I proceed? > > TIA, > Karl-Heinz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
