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On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it |
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>> needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. |
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>> I´m running into merge conflicts when trying to update portage, and |
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>> apparently one of the packages (dev-python/cryptography) I could try |
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>> to update first to be able to update portage requires a version of |
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>> portage that can handle EAPI 6 packages. |
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> |
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> Try the other suggestions first -- but as a last resort -- you can |
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> always grab a new stage3 that should contain an updated version of |
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> portage and simply overwrite the portage files on your machine. A |
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> quickpkg from another Gentoo machine (or the liveCD?) would also work. |
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A cleaner solution would be to just sync a snapshot of the Gentoo repo |
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from the past. |
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Pick snapshots every few months and emerge -u @system, and repeat that |
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until you're caught up. The only issue is if it needs to download a |
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patch that is no longer available. |
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In general Gentoo does not support infrequently updating systems. You |
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don't need to update every day, or even every month. However, when |
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you're going more than six months at a time without an update you're |
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almost certain to have problems. |
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EAPI6 support was available in stable portage in Jan 2016. The |
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version of portage you're running predates the git migration which was |
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a year ago, but fortunately by not a whole lot more than that. |
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Here is a guide: |
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cd /usr |
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mv portage portage-old # for safekeeping - you can go |
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back to rsync later if you want |
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mkdir portage |
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cd portage |
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git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git . |
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git checkout 56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d # Aug 8 2015 |
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emerge -u @system |
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git checkout 1e65133983f404ea64079df0933dd820619a9b44 # Nov 1 2015 |
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emerge -u @system |
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git checkout 47b868a553171134807fc949d2b84c2dc31b0477 # Feb 2 2016 |
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emerge -u @system |
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By now you're into EAPI6 territory. Hopefully you can get to the |
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present directly, but I can give you a few more commits if necessary. |
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I didn't test those out on an old system, so you might still run into |
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issues. I won't promise that this won't be a bumpy ride. |
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When you're done you can swap out portage and portage-old. |
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And try to stay more current with updates... If you really know what |
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you're doing you can update ancient systems, but it sounds like you |
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want something that "just works" and on Gentoo this is not something |
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that just works. |
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Rich |
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