On Thursday 26 Jan 2017 22:42:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Somethng has gone wrong with your installation of portage or your copy > of the tree - that "no ebuilds" message is impossible.
Indeed so. So I've now built a fresh system and I'll see how that goes. > It will probably be a cruel task to track down exactly what is wrong, my > intuition says something in a local cache somewhere. Might be easiest > just to delete all portage data (*except* /var/db/pkg), download a new > tree tarball and let portage sort itself out [OT] Recent versions of System Rescue CD have a different web browser, and on my screen it's unusable because any change of style in the text (bold, italic etc. or an embedded link) causes overlapping. So I had to revert to an older version for the installation handbook. [/OT] -- Regards Peter
