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It has been awhile since we powered up the Sparc64 box we loaded Gentoo on in this article. Well, links was not on the box, and we wanted it. Emerge failed:

srv-44 scsi # emerge links
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!!! Couldn't download links-2.1_pre2-patch.tar.bz2. Aborting.

Doh! We have to emerge portage and sync it:

srv-44 scsi # emerge portage
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.47-r8 to /
>>> md5 ;-) portage-2.0.47-r8.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
tar xjf /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.47-r8.tar.bz2
>>> Source unpacked.
./create-localdecls
Checking truncate argument type... off_t
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srv-44 scsi # emerge sync
>>> starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage...
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srv-44 scsi # emerge links
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>>> Recording net-www/links in "world" favorites file...
net-www/links
selected: none
protected: 2.1_pre9
omitted: none
>>> clean: No packages selected for removal.
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* Regenerating GNU info directory index...
* Processed 70 info files.
* IMPORTANT: 33 config files in /etc need updating.
* Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
srv-44 scsi # 

That is better!! Agatha says: "When upgrading Gentoo, don't forget to emerge portage and emerge sync". And, that's the truth.



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