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

On 01/29/2017 02:43 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 01/29/2017 03:56 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.
>>
>
> Ugh, you're in for it. The ncurses update requires --backtrack=100 or
> something like that. Independently, the ruby situation is a mess because
> ruby20 was masked at the same time as the RUBY_TARGETS flag, meaning
> that everyone's system immediately became inconsistent (installed
> packages depending on masked flag depending on masked dev-lang/ruby).
> You might be better off manually unmasking ruby:2.0 and
> USE=ruby_targets_ruby20 until this is over.
>
> Start at the top and "emerge -v1" things one at a time. If that doesn't
> work, start at the bottom and try it. Or go through your /var/db/pkg and
> see which one of those you can hit with an "emerge -1" successfully.
> Once you've gotten the list down a little bit, it might be easier to see
> what the blockers are.

Very sound advise, I'll deal with upgrading rubby 2.0 later on.
System is upgrading so it will take a while.

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Thelma