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emerge -1av sys-apps/portage was my first trial, because I was advised |
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to do so. When it failed, I decided to do upgrade as I described. |
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Thanks for your interest. |
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L. P. |
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2013/12/28 Norman Rieß <norman@×××××××××.org>: |
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> Am 27.12.2013 09:48, schrieb Lech Pañkowski: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I was asked to upgrade a Gentoo server. It probably was not updated |
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>> for a few years. There is 10.0 profile with portage 2.1.6.7. After |
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>> every 'emerge' there is a suggestion to upgrade to 13.0 profile. |
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>> I am fairly novice to Gentoo, and this server is constantly being used (e-mail). |
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>> |
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>> First I started with: |
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>> # emerge --sync |
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>> # emerge -1av sys-apps/portage |
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>> There was a message: |
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>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:2.7". |
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>> dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.2.7" [ebuild]) (dependency |
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>> required by "portage" {argument])". |
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>> |
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>> Supposing that my installation is too old to upgrade that way I |
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>> decided to follow strictly method described at |
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>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Updating_old_systems |
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>> |
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>> Stage3 was downloaded from |
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>> http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/releases/x86/current-stage3/) |
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>> Unfortunately, after the last command from this guide: |
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>> # ROOT=/mnt/host emerge -1v portage |
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>> there are many messages such as: |
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>> |
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>> !!! Section 'gentoo' in repos.conf has location attribute set to |
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>> nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage' |
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>> !!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute set to |
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>> nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage' |
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>> !!! Invalid Repository Location (not a dir): '/usr/portage' |
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>> .... |
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>> !!! /etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably |
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>> prevent most merges. |
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>> !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/ |
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>> |
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>> I felt completly lost. I found repos.config only in |
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>> /mnt/build/usr/share/portage/config, but there is no 'x-portage' |
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>> section. |
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>> |
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>> Is there something wrong with this guide? |
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>> May I ask for any hint what to do next, and more generally - how to do |
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>> the upgrade in the safest possible way? |
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>> |
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>> English is a foreign language for me, so please forgive my language |
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>> mistakes (if any). |
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>> |
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>> Every remark will be highly appreciated. |
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>> With many thanks in advance, |
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>> Leszek Pankowski |
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>> |
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> |
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> Did you really used # emerge -1av sys-apps/portage? |
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> Because the guide tells otherwise: #ROOT=/mnt/host emerge -1av portage |
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> |
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> Norman |
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