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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 05:25:00
Message-Id: 451fa4a4-5d62-b62d-996d-25c43ba4053c@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI? by n952162
1 On 8/3/21 7:20 AM, n952162 wrote:
2 > On 8/2/21 10:10 PM, David Haller wrote:
3 >> Hello,
4 >>
5 >> On Mon, 02 Aug 2021, n952162 wrote:
6 >>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
7 >>> "dev-python/isodate[python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?]"
8 >>> have been masked.
9 >>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
10 >>> request:
11 >>> - dev-python/isodate-0.6.0-r2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 8)
12 >>>
13 >>> The current version of portage supports EAPI '7'. You must upgrade to a
14 >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
15 >>> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.
16 >> You should read a bit more carefully... It seems your sys-apps/portage
17 >> is a bit dated.
18 >>
19 >> Upgrade sys-apps/portage first, then it should work.
20 >>
21 >> HTH,
22 >> -dnh
23 >
24 >
25 > I read that, but I last updated 2 months ago.  So, this update breaks
26 > because portage was updated and new ebuilds using that are already
27 > being pushed out?  Seems strict to me ... but /isodate/ being the only
28 > one?  I still have a EAPI 4 on my system (1). Plenty of EAPI 5.  Was
29 > there something in isodate that needed to be urgently updated -
30 > utilizing the the cutting edge EAPI?
31 >
32
33 We just had to update portage not so long ago.  I admittedly presumed at
34 first that something else must be wrong, because it didn't occur to me
35 that portage would be so volatile.
36
37 Everything in gentoo is so nicely configurable, but I think another
38 dimension should be add: configurable volatility - i.e. a configurable
39 hysteresis for upstream updates.

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