jef wrote:
> Le Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:15:52 +0000, David W Noon a écrit :
>
>> In message <47d30da3$0$13888$426a74cc@news.free.fr>, jef wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> A more sensible approach would be to do an emerge --sync and upgrade
>> your Gentoo kernel. This would automatically bring in updates to any
>> associated drivers, as well as the one causing you a problem. - --
>> Regards
>>
>> Dave [RLU#314465]
>
> That's what I did at first, but I have another problem with emerge --sync
> ( I was about to open another thread for that ) :
> ************************
> localhost jf # emerge --sync
> WARNING: usage of RSYNC_TIMEOUT is deprecated, use
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS instead
> WARNING: usage of RSYNC_RETRIES is deprecated, use PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES
> instead
>>>> Starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage...
>>>> Checking server timestamp ...
> rsync: --filter=H_**/files/digest-*: unknown option
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1013)
>
> !!! Rsync has reported that there is a syntax error. Please ensure
> !!! that your SYNC statement is proper.
> !!! SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage

Seems like you missed to update your /etc/make.conf after you last updated
portage, I suggest you start to fix the make.conf (look at the example file),
remove all custom options you set for syncing.

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//Aho