Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

On 01/30/2017 02:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 30/01/2017 22:57, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>> On 01/30/2017 01:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2017-01-30, thelma@×××××××××××.com <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>> On 01/29/2017 01:56 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>>>>> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months).
>>>>> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into problems.
>>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> OK, I have just few blockers.  What to do with them?
>>>> I have grup-0.97-r16 installed in slot: "0"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [blocks B     ] sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot] ("sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot]" is blocking sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16)
>>>> [blocks B     ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1)
>>>
>>> You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub.
>>
>> I don't use grub-2.
>> I think I will need to install grub-0.97-r16
>> and reinstall it gain.
>
> either mask grub:2 or explicitly enable grub:0 only. Edit your world
> file to have this for grub:
> sys-boot/grub:0
>
>> Do I need to enable 'multislot' use flag for grub?
>
> You need to learn to look things up first.
>
> grub:0 doesn't have a multislot USE flag, only grub:0 does

Thank Alan, I just blocked off grub all together.
So the system is compiling 509 packages; on my old x86 once core system;
I think it will take a few days :-/

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Thelma