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From: nunojsilva@×××××××.pt
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:10:00
Message-Id: qtdbv5$3ng4$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system … by Ilya Trukhanov
1 On 2019-12-18, Ilya Trukhanov wrote:
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3 > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
4 >> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a
5 >> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.
6 >
7 > The message is pretty clear. You need to upgrade portage first. Try
8 > `emerge -1 portage`. This should take care of the EAPI message.
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10 The EAPI problem is in a package that is pulled as a dependency of
11 portage.
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13 Unless there's a simple hack to solve this, you will need to use older
14 ebuilds or split the update in several steps, using older versions of
15 the portage tree. The following notes show a way of achieving this:
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17 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/HOWTO_Update_Old_Gentoo
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20 Nuno Silva

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[gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system … Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>