Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update circle
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:25:31
Message-Id: CAJjrzcX+svRCsj0tAiPYH_7qZ1fwTOg1-m6z9JuryFSq-OUQPg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Update circle by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 12:12, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Which version of tar do you have?
3 >
4 > This looks like a really old system and you can expect a long journey to
5 > update it. Large amounts of patience, caffeine and man page reading will
6 > be needed.
7
8 I would suggest downloading the ebuild for the previous version of
9 tar, which was EAPI 5, and install that:
10
11 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/app-arch/tar/tar-1.29-r3.ebuild?id=9c7c8cc9b55491825725e7edb8891695e655d2e6
12
13 Cheers,
14 Arve