Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:38:43AM +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 10:07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> >   I just did an "emerge --sync", and was told to update portage.  But it
> > seems that portage 3.0.8 built with python 3.7 is blocking portage 3.0.9
> > with python 3.8.  I obviously can't remove portage to fix the block <G>.
> > Note "grep -i python /etc/portage/make.conf" shows no output at all.  In
> > package.use, PYTHON_TARGETS: and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: are commented out.
> 
> It's a dependency problem that I find that it is not worth to
> untangle. I had the exact same problem yesterday on a different
> machine.
> 
> My advice: skip this and go straight to world update. portage will
> most likely figure out the tangle for you, and update itself during
> the world update.

  Thank you.  That fixed the problem.  After updating world portage-3.0.9
is now installed, built against PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8"

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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