Manual update of portage required

We can svn update to get the new version of
bootstrap-prefix.sh ... right?

~ Nathan

On 10/24/06, Fabian Groffen <grobiangentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The prefix tree has just been updated to include some
ported ebuilds and
> the ebuild for the latest portage.  You CANNOT update
portage by
> emerging it.  The ebuild for portage is written in the
new format, which
> is not correctly understood by its predecessors.
>
> Instead updating has to be done using the
bootstrap-prefix.sh script.
> Make sure you download a fresh copy of this file from:
> http://ov
erlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/scri
pts/bootstrap-prefix.sh?format=txt
>
> Then using this script, ONLY bootstrap portage in your
prefix.  So, for
> example if you choose /Library/Gentoo as your prefix:
> % ./bootstrap-prefix.sh /Library/Gentoo portage
>
> After this make sure you updated your tree (if you
haven't already) and
> emerge portage.  Portage itself doesn't know it's
updated, so it will
> happily show you it will update itself.
>
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
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