[gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

[Alexey Luchko]

Hi!

I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I  
suppose.
Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;)

But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update  
is required. But it is confused by dependencies:
colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge      ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2]
[ebuild     U ]  app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE="-examples% - 
plugins%"
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2]
[ebuild     U ]  dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5]
[ebuild     U ]  sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [1.2.17]
[ebuild  N    ]   app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7  USE="-nocxx"
[ebuild  N    ]  app-admin/eselect-news-20080320
[ebuild     U ]   app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 [1.0.7] USE="-vim-syntax%"
[ebuild     U ]  app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 [0.1.15]
[blocks B     ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.5 (is blocking app-shells/ 
bash-3.2_p39)
colinux ~ #


How to get it out?


Regards,
Alexey.