I emerge sync'd in order to update the profile I am using from 2004.0 to 2004.3. I set the symlink as required then did emerge sync. Following was output: Quote Number of files: 131050 Number of files transferred: 852 Total file size: 105311679 bytes Total transferred file size: 826739 bytes Literal data: 826739 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3098468 Total bytes written: 17225 Total bytes read: 3492532 wrote 17225 bytes read 3492532 bytes 10815.89 bytes/sec total size is 105311679 speedup is 30.01 >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! !!! '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) Unquote I did as it said to remove /usr/portage/profiles and ran once more. Saem result. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge sync 2. 3. Actual Results: Same error result Expected Results: No error message Original installation from Spanky's instructions as found here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1341859 No update since that time.
See Bug 63400, comment #49 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63400 ***
*** Bug 112343 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
