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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 19:55:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2023-06-09, Nikolay Pulev <nikolay.pulev@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is my first reach out to you. I have not update my machine for
> a long time

How long?

> and have no reached a point where I can't install or upgrade
> packages.

My experience is that if you haven't updated up for more than 6-9
months, the easiest/fastest thing to do (usually) is back up /etc,
/home, /root and /usr/src/linux/.config and re-install from scratch.

If you've got /home in a separate partition, that makes the reinstall
particularly easy.

--
Grant