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August 22, 2018 10:25 AM, "Zoltán Kócsi" <zoltan@××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite |
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> a long while, actually. |
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> Now I needed to install a package, and I did so. It went up, no |
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> problem. Except that it relies on a newer version of openrc than |
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> what's on the system. From here it's all downhill: |
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> emerge openrc: |
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> - Fails, as the current portage is EAPI 5 (whatever that is), thus all |
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> EAPI 6 packages are masked. Must upgrade portage. |
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> emerge portage: |
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> - Fails, as it needs tar-1.30 and the installed tar is 1.27. Must update |
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> tar. |
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> emerge tar: |
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> - Fails, as tar-1.30 needs EAPI 6. Must upgrade portage. |
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> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the |
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> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and |
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> running) system must be updated somehow. |
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> I would appreciate any advice, I'm in complete darkness about the |
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> internal workings of portage (would be happy to find some detailed docs |
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> about that, by the way, preferably in PDF). |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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> Zoltan |
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What does emerge -vuDN --verbose-conflicts --with-bdeps=y world say? |
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What’s your portage version? |
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What profile are you using? (eselect profile show) |
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What is your gcc version? |
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Regards, |
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Corentin “Nado” Pazdera |
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