Bug 69203

Summary:	Portage breaks on emerge sync
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Wes Krasko <wesblake>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Wes Krasko 2004-10-27 18:01:52 UTC

Hi, I just ran 'emerge sync' and this is what it returned at the end:
!!! '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)
I ran the given command and it still says this.

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-28 06:18:16 UTC

You'll need to remove the /etc/make.conf symlink, link it to something appropriate immediately under ${PORTDIR}/profiles, upgrade portage to >=2.0.51-r2 and then restore the symlink again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62889 ***

Comment 2 Andreas Vinsander 2004-11-01 03:51:35 UTC

Actually it is the /etc/make.profile symlink that should be reset to a non-cascading profile, then emerge sync && emerge portage to get hold of the latest portage that should be able to handle the cascading profiles correctly.