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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating old Gentoo on notebook
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:29:18
Message-Id: YT/CoUk9rn3wZJFM@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating old Gentoo on notebook by Jack
1 On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 04:12:54PM -0400, Jack wrote
2 > On 2021.09.13 15:59, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > I have a notebook that I haven't updated for a while. After emerge
4 > > sync, it said to "emerge -1 portage". Trying to do so got me the
5 > > following as listed in the gzipped attachment. I'd really rather not
6 > > re-install. Is there a way to get out of this?
7 >
8 > From my very elementary and simplistic look at the log, have you been
9 > messing at all with python version related settings? (python_target
10 > related flags)
11
12 No. The notebook hasn't been updated for a few months.
13
14 > It looks like the new portage needs the new version of some python
15 > packages, but the older version of some of those packages is still
16 > required by yet other packages.
17 > Until/unless someone can suggest a more comprehensive approach (which
18 > may be likely,) I would try upgrading those pythong packages included
19 > in your upgrad - one at a time, trying to figure out which other
20 > packages you need to upgrade first.
21
22 That's what I'm doing right now, one piece at a time.
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25 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
26 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications