On Wednesday 30 April 2008, reader@(protected):

Seems like you got to a working state - unorthodox method, but it does
seem to have worked :-)

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> But now that blockage is solved... I'm getting a failure in the
> dependancy gpm when I try to emerge -vu portage.
>
> I've included that failure message at the end. Right now I think
> I'll try with --nodeps and if portage installs ok... I'll try
> emerging and building a more recent kernel and see if is still boots.
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> emerge -vu portage ends with this faiure while emerging dependancies:
>
> unpack gpm-1.20.3.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring.

There was a post earlier today about this very thing. Check today's
inbox for more details. Apparently you need a very recent portage to
use this feature, so I would suggest you fully resolve the bash/portage
thing first before trying to emerge world

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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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