Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

[n952162]

On 2020-06-15 16:20, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday, June 15, 2020 1:26:06 PM CEST n952162 wrote:
>> Thank you for the response.  Unfortunately it didn't work.  The logs are
>> attached (tgt=portage, system, world) and summarized below.
>>
>> Perl keeps coming up as a problem, so, as an example, I tried to build
>> perl, including all the packages that say they need it on the command
>> line.  Emerge comes back with the same result.  I can't understand why,
>> e.g. Data-Dump requires perl 5.24:
>>
>>       dev-lang/perl:0/5.24=[-build(-)] required by
>> (dev-perl/Data-Dump-1.230.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)"
>>
>> when it's included on the command line to re-emerge:
>>
>> + sudo $HOME/adm/gentoo/src/portage/bin/emerge -vuUD --verbose-conflicts
>> --backtrack=100 --with-bdeps=y dev-perl/Text-CharWidth
>> dev-perl/HTML-Tree *dev-perl/Data-Dump* dev-perl/TermReadKey
>> dev-perl/HTML-Form dev-perl/LWP-MediaTypes dev-perl/XML-Parser
>> dev-perl/Text-WrapI18N app-text/po4a dev-perl/HTTP-Date
>> dev-perl/Unicode-EastAsianWidth dev-perl/IO-HTML dev-perl/SGMLSpm
>> dev-perl/Locale-gettext dev-perl/WWW-Mechanize dev-perl/HTML-Tagset
>> dev-perl/Date-Manip dev-perl/File-Listing dev-lang/perl
>>
> <Snipped lengthy output>
>
> With a system that has not been updated for over 3 years, I would suggest to
> Start from scratch and copy the config across.
>
> If you do insist on trying to work through this, I would suggest the following
> (READ and understand all steps before executing any):
>
> 0) Make sure you do NOT change your profile. (As you adjusted it from 13.0 to
> 17.1, change it back to 13.0, or if not available, 17.0)
> - Profile 17.1 is NOT going to work at this point.
>
>
> 1) Rename the world and world_sets files to (temporarily) clear the entire
> world-set
> (These files are located in "/var/lib/portage")
>
>
> 2) execute: "emerge -vauDN --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=200 @world" and
> alternate with "emerge --update --newuse --deep @world" until both have
> nothing left to do.
>
> 3) execute "emerge -va --depclean"
> - This is a LARGE set, don't worry, it will all come back (You DID backup the
> files in step 1, right?)
>
> 4) Fix any config-file changes that are left over and follow this with steps
> "2", "3" and "4" until your system is clean.
>
> 5) Install, configure and compile the kernel and ensure you can reboot the
> system. (This is important for the next step)
>
> 6) Follow the news-item regarding migrating to 17.1 and follow this exactly.
> (Your install is extremely basic, so it should be nice and easy)
>
> 7) Reinstall all needed software (read your world and world_set backup-files
> to see what you had before and ONLY install those that you actually need)
>
> 8) Fix any config-files that are needed for the software you re-installed in
> step 7
>
> 9) Congratulate yourself for managing to upgrade a system after 3+ years
>
>
> In my experience, when the system has not been updated for this long, the
> fastest way to resolve this is to start from scratch with a backup of any
> config and data files.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>
>
> Okay, thank you for the support so far.  I'll investigate re-installing (on both VMs).