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From: hw <hw@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:02:25
Message-Id: 57B32AEF.4060006@gc-24.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages by james
1 james schrieb:
2 > On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it
7 >> needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5.
8 >>
9 >> I´m running into merge conflicts when trying to update portage, and
10 >> apparently one of the packages (dev-python/cryptography) I could try
11 >> to update first to be able to update portage requires a version of
12 >> portage that can handle EAPI 6 packages.
13 >>
14 >> How can upgrade portage?
15 >
16 >
17 > You might want to read these docs on how to upgrade an old system, in steps, not all at once::
18 >
19 >
20 > http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/
21 >
22 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/snapshots/
23 >
24 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Upgrading_from_older_systems
25 >
26 >
27 > Yet another approach.
28
29 Thanks --- if I update, I´ll probably try this step-by-step method. It
30 seems to be the most promising way.