August 22, 2018 10:25 AM, "Zoltán Kócsi" <zol...@bendor.com.au> wrote:
> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite > a long while, actually. > > Now I needed to install a package, and I did so. It went up, no > problem. Except that it relies on a newer version of openrc than > what's on the system. From here it's all downhill: > > emerge openrc: > - Fails, as the current portage is EAPI 5 (whatever that is), thus all > EAPI 6 packages are masked. Must upgrade portage. > > emerge portage: > - Fails, as it needs tar-1.30 and the installed tar is 1.27. Must update > tar. > > emerge tar: > - Fails, as tar-1.30 needs EAPI 6. Must upgrade portage. > > It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the > system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and > running) system must be updated somehow. > > I would appreciate any advice, I'm in complete darkness about the > internal workings of portage (would be happy to find some detailed docs > about that, by the way, preferably in PDF). > > Thanks in advance, > > Zoltan What does emerge -vuDN --verbose-conflicts --with-bdeps=y world say? What’s your portage version? What profile are you using? (eselect profile show) What is your gcc version? Regards, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
