emerge --sync; now what?

[Sunnz]

Helo there,

I wanted to update my system, so I did emerge --sync to update the portage tree.

It seems like there is a newer version of portage in the portage tree... and newer version of gcc...

Could I just to "# emerge --update --deep --newuse world" from here? Or do I have to rebuild the "toolchain" first?

What is it mean by the "toolchain" anyway? Should I do emerge portage, emerge emerge, emerge gcc and/or emerge system???
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[Dieter@be]

first do portage (this is a must !)
then you could do gcc: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml (not a must)
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i would do

[at240]

You should upgrade portage:

[Sunnz]

I am confused on what order should I do them...

These are the things that I think I'll need to rebuild:

portage
emerge
gcc
system
world

Should I do them in that order? Or should I do gcc first?
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[Dieter@be]

you don't need to rebuild portage.. you need to update it..
emerge -u portage does that

emerge is just a command to communicate with portage.
system contains gcc and some other stuff

besides: like i already told you: you MUST update portage first, (all the other posters said this too) all the rest is not a necessity
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[at240]

Sunnz,

As I said before, if you tell us what versions of gcc you're moving from and to, we can tell you whether or not you need to bother rebuilding your entire system.

But as Dieter@be has said, first thing you should do is upgrade portage---we've given you commands that would do that. Emerge is part of portage, so it cannot be upgraded separately.

[Sunnz]