Denny Schierz wrote: >hi, > >i have two very old gentoo boxes and i can't upgrade them. After a sync, >the default profile 2004.0 was deleted and know i can't do anything with >portage: > >router x86 # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' >!!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert' >!!! 'rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles; emerge sync' may fix this. If it does >!!! not then please report this to bugs.gentoo.org and, if possible, a >dev >!!! on #gentoo (irc.freenode.org) > >Is it possible to use portage from a new system, via quickpkg? > >cu denny > > >
You may want to try emerge portage. I think I ran into this once before and that fixed it. There is also a portage rescue tarbal somewhere that you can put on to rescue it. I did that once before too but I can't recall where it is right now. It's on the Gentoo site somewhere. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list