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On 2020-06-11 10:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:47:50 +0200, n952162 wrote: |
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>> I haven't clue what to do here. Can somebody supply a good URL or |
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>> explanation? |
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>> The emerge(1) man page says: |
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>> EAPI The EAPI variable in an ebuild(5) file is used to mask |
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>> packages that are not |
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>> supported by the current version of portage. Packages |
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>> masked by EAPI can |
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>> only be installed after portage has been upgraded. |
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>> but it's precisely portage that I'm trying to update. |
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>> The comand was: |
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>> sudo emerge -vauU portage 2>&1 | tee -a portage.200611 |
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>> 01~>cat /tmp/portage.200611 |
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>> * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating. |
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> Which config files need updating and why haven't you updated them? It may |
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> be relevant. |
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They have been updated - I've neglected to delete the ._cfg files. |
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>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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>> Calculating dependencies |
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>> * IMPORTANT: 25 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. |
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>> * Use eselect news read to view new items. |
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> Why haven't you read these? There were recent news items relating to |
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> python changes, which may have a direct bearing on your situation. |
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I have, on other machines. I administer 5 real gentoo systems and 5 |
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gentoo systems in VMs. |
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(that doesn't mean that I *understood* the news items ;-) ) |
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>> * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS |
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>> * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files. |
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>> .... done! |
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>> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB |
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>> !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied |
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>> dependencies: |
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>> sys-apps/portage:0 |
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>> selected: (sys-apps/portage-2.3.13-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) |
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>> skipped: (sys-apps/portage-2.3.99-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled |
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>> for merge) (see unsatisfied dependency below) |
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>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy |
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>> "dev-lang/python:3.7[bzip2(+),threads(+)]" have been masked. |
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>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your |
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>> request: |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.9.0_beta3::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.9.0_beta2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.9.0_beta1::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.9.0_alpha6::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.8.3::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.8.2-r2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.8.2-r1::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.7.7-r2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.7.7-r1::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.6.10-r2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-3.6.10-r1::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-2.7.18::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> - dev-lang/python-2.7.17-r2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 7) |
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>> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a |
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>> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. |
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>> (dependency required by |
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>> "sys-apps/portage-2.3.99-r2::gentoo[python_targets_python3_7]" [ebuild]) |
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>> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge |
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>> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. |
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> This is the basic problem, you have a very old version of portage, how |
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> long since this system was updated? Is this the same one you have been |
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> asking questions about belated updates before? |
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No, probably not |
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> Did you try everything |
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> suggested? |
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Until the relevant machine was working, or I gave up. |
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>> * sys-apps/portage |
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>> Would you like to add these packages to your world favorites? [Yes/No] |
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>> >>> Recording sys-apps/portage in "world" favorites file... |
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> You don't want basic system commands in your world file. This has been |
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> explained to you before, and the need to use --oneshot when updating |
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> individual packages. It is quite possible that world file pollution has |
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> some bearing on your situation. |
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I wondered about that prompt, but I couldn't image that portage oughtn't |
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be in my @system set. |
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> Deal with the outstanding issues of updates, news and the world file |
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> before trying to proceed. Even if it doesn't fix every problem, it makes |
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> the output much easier to parse when all that detail is gone. |
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