Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 09:38:43 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 10:07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> >   I just did an "emerge --sync", and was told to update portage.  But it
> >
> > seems that portage 3.0.8 built with python 3.7 is blocking portage 3.0.9
> > with python 3.8.  I obviously can't remove portage to fix the block <G>.
> > Note "grep -i python /etc/portage/make.conf" shows no output at all.  In
> > package.use, PYTHON_TARGETS: and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: are commented out.
>
> It's a dependency problem that I find that it is not worth to
> untangle. I had the exact same problem yesterday on a different
> machine.
>
> My advice: skip this and go straight to world update. portage will
> most likely figure out the tangle for you, and update itself during
> the world update.

Agreed. That's what I did: just updated as usual and all went tickety-boo.

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Regards,
Peter.