On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 18:03:27 -0800 (PST) > Simon Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone shed any light on this: > > > > # emerge -upD world > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (app-editors/vim-6.2-r5) > > (try adding an '=')" > > > > Please help! > > > > > somewhere, either in /var/cache/edb/world,virtuals or /etc/portage/* > you have the string "app-editors/vim-6.2-r5" that is incorrect, and you > need an = in front of it. find it, and it will be fixed. > Thanks!
I had a line in /etc/portage/package.mask. Deleting the line fixed the problem. Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
