Sync Portage Tree

How to Synchronise your Portage Tree

Portage keeps its entire record of all packages available to you on your system. To make sure Portage is aware of the current versions of packages available to you, you will need to update this record every once in a while.

It's not hard - just click on the "Sync" button in the Porthole toolbar. Make sure you don't have "Pretend" enabled.

If you are wondering how long it was since your last sync, hover the cursor over the "Sync" button to display a tooltip with the last sync time and date.

emerge-webrsync

If you need to use emerge-webrsync to update the portage tree, select "Customise Porthole" from the "Settings" menu. In the "General" tab of the preferences dialog is an option to use emerge-webrsync in stead of the ordinary sync command. The sync button will now perform an emerge-webrsync in stead.


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