[gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

[Andrei Brezan]

Hi list,

First, i'm not an experienced user of gentoo, just started using it a 
couple of months ago, I come from freebsd world which i find it to be 
similar in many ways with the gentoo world. I have a really old server 
on which I performed emerge --sync and after I had to eselect profile 
set to hardened/linux/amd64.

After this i wanted to:

emerge -vp portage
!!! CONFIG_PROTECT is empty
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libffi-3.0.9  USE="-debug -static-libs -test" 
715 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6b [1.5.26] USE="-test% -vanilla" 
722 kB
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/libffi-0  0 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/eselect-1.2.11 [1.0.12] USE="-bash-completion 
-doc" 156 kB
[uninstall    ] app-admin/eselect-news-20080320
[blocks b     ] app-admin/eselect-news ("app-admin/eselect-news" is 
blocking app-admin/eselect-1.2.11)
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/eselect-python-20100321  6 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1 [2.4.4-r13, 2.5.4-r2] 
USE="berkdb gdbm ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml -build 
-doc -examples -ipv6 -sqlite -tk -wininst" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25 [2.1.6.13] USE="(ipc%*) -build 
-doc -epydoc -python3% (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
[blocks B     ] >=dev-lang/python-2.6.6:2.6 
(">=dev-lang/python-2.6.6:2.6" is blocking sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13)
[blocks B     ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.9 ("<sys-apps/portage-2.1.9" is 
blocking dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1)

Total: 7 packages (3 upgrades, 3 new, 1 in new slot, 1 uninstall), Size 
of downloads: 1,598 kB
Conflict: 3 blocks (2 unsatisfied)

  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
  * installed at the same time on the same system.

   ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1', 'merge') pulled in by
     dev-lang/python:2.6 required by ('ebuild', '/', 
'sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25', 'merge')


For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked


This is my emerge --info:
!!! CONFIG_PROTECT is emptyPortage 2.1.6.13 (hardened/linux/amd64, 
gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.28-hardened-r9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 
Linux-2.6.28-hardened-r9-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5520_@_2.27GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.4-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.10.2, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc:       4.1.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
sys-devel/make:      3.81
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT=""
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf 
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ 
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo 
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox 
sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times 
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm 
hardened iconv justify mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl 
nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pic pppd python readline session sse sse2 
ssl sysfs tcpd urandom xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp 
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx 
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare 
dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter 
mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" 
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon 
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default 
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi 
cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter 
file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime 
mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir 
usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory 
rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm 
earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea 
ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf 
superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse 
evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 
lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" 
RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel 
mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa 
via vmware voodoo" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 
ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq 
steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, 
LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, 
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

I tried with --nodeps for both portage which complains about python 
version and doesn't want to install and for python itself i get:

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -L. -Xlinker 
-export-dynamic -o python \
                         Modules/python.o \
                         -L. -lpython2.6 -lpthread -ldl  -lutil   -lm
running build
running build_ext
error: /ffi.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
  *
  * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1 failed.
  * Call stack:
  *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
  *             environment, line 5556:  Called _eapi2_src_compile
  *               ebuild.sh, line  634:  Called die
  * The specific snippet of code:
  *              emake || die "emake failed"
  *  The die message:
  *   emake failed
  *
  * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
stack if relevant.
  * A complete build log is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1/temp/build.log'.
  * The ebuild environment file is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1/temp/environment'.
  *

 >>> Failed to emerge dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1, Log file:

 >>>  '/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1/temp/build.log'

  * Messages for package dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1:

  * "bsddb" module is out-of-date and no longer maintained inside 
dev-lang/python. It has
  * been additionally removed in Python 3. You should use external, 
still maintained "bsddb3"
  * module provided by dev-python/bsddb3 which supports both Python 2 
and Python 3.
  *
  * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1 failed.
  * Call stack:
  *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
  *             environment, line 5556:  Called _eapi2_src_compile
  *               ebuild.sh, line  634:  Called die
  * The specific snippet of code:
  *              emake || die "emake failed"
  *  The die message:
  *   emake failed
  *
  * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
stack if relevant.
  * A complete build log is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1/temp/build.log'.
  * The ebuild environment file is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1/temp/environment'.

Is it possible to update this system? If yes please shed some light or 
point me in the right direction.

Thank you,
Andrei