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From: james <garftd@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:36:25
Message-Id: df672f9c-a528-48b9-d7d7-720ae1fdef14@verizon.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages by hw
1 On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it
6 > needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5.
7 >
8 > I´m running into merge conflicts when trying to update portage, and
9 > apparently one of the packages (dev-python/cryptography) I could try
10 > to update first to be able to update portage requires a version of
11 > portage that can handle EAPI 6 packages.
12 >
13 > How can upgrade portage?
14
15
16 You might want to read these docs on how to upgrade an old system, in
17 steps, not all at once::
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20 http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/
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22 http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/snapshots/
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24 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Upgrading_from_older_systems
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27 Yet another approach.
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30 hth,
31 James

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