portage problems

[Radi]

when i try to run the emerge (e.g. emerge -p gcc) this error accours:

Calculating dependencies !!! Name error in : category or packagepartmissing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1218, in ?
mykey=portage.db[portage.root]["porttree"].dep_bestmatch(mypkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1996, in dep_bestmatch
mypkgdep=self.dep_pkgcat(mypkgdep)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1979, in dep_pkgcat
if self.hasnode(cat+"/"+mypkgdep_packagename):
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1804, in hasnode
myreskey=self.resolve_key(mykey)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1753, in resolve_key
self.load(mykey)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1712, in load
self.populate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2367, in populate
self.domask()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2375, in domask
self.zap(y)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1724, in zap
mykey=cps[0]+"/"+cps[1]
TypeError: unsubscriptable object

I think it has something todo with a version missmatch of portage, i am using the stage1-sparc-1.1a-r1.tbz2, probably is there a newer version for my sparc server 20 (with a supersparc 32 Bit Proz.), i couldn't find a newer version on the ibiblio mirror.

can someone help me please

[Radi]

ok, thx for visiting, i just tried the sparc64 stage1 tarball it worked well, and now i'm bootstraping, i wonder how longe that will take???