Solution: Gentoo - emerge --sync fails with "syntax error"
I'm just posting this because google didn't turn up anything on it (aside from the emerge source code :) )
Problem: Code:
/root# emerge --verbose --sync rsync was out of date. I did an emerge on rsync and everything was happy. |
Maybe --verbose is supposed to follow --sync. This page has the following example.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=1&chap=6 Quote:
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Hmmm, get the same situation after emerge --sync with new profile 2006.1/server/ on old server with 2005.0 make.profile. Trouble was solved after following actions: 1. emerge --oneshot sys-libs/ncurses 2. emerge rsync 3. etc-update Thats all. Success. |
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This problem was clearly caused by a compatibility issue with an older version of rsync and a newer version of portage. Unfortunately, I don't feel like reporting it as a dependency bug -- researching it, reproducing it and then dealing with the pain in the ass "RTFM-ers" that often troll bug databases, closing bugs for stupid reasons and bitching if you re-open them. Sadly, there are times when it just doesn't feel worth the effort. All I care about is, that if somebody else has that problem, Google can give them a solution. |
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