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+# Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# The dev-install package used to install into /etc/portage/ that older portage
+# would ignore, but newer one uses (and fails).  So force all boards to install
+# the latest version.
+
+opkg="chromeos-base/dev-install"
+ver="0.0.1-r427"
+
+export CLEAN_DELAY=0
+
+update() {
+  local root=$1 board=$2 emerge
+
+  if [[ -z ${board} ]]; then
+    board="root"
+    emerge="sudo -E emerge"
+  else
+    emerge="emerge-${board}"
+  fi
+
+  if portageq has_version ${root} "<${opkg}-${ver}"; then
+    ${emerge} -1ug ">=${opkg}-${ver}"
+  fi
+}
+
+update / &
+
+for board_root in /build/*; do
+  board=${board_root##*/}
+  update ${board_root} ${board} &
+done
+
+wait