Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 2020.05.16 11:56, n952162 wrote:
> Okay, I'm blocked here, at the very beginning:
> 
>    sys-apps/portage:0
> 
>       (sys-apps/portage-*2.3.89-r3:0*/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
>    merge) pulled in by
>         =sys-apps/portage-2.3.89-r3 (Argument)
> 
>       (sys-apps/portage-*2.3.49:0/0*::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     
> sys-apps/portage[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_4(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)]
>    required by (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1:0/0::gentoo,  
> installed)
> 
> I'm trying to update from 2.3.49 to 2.3.89 and it tells me it has a  
> slot
> conflict there.  I can hardly delete portage and then add it ...
First, if you post a slot conflict, post the whole thing.   (This one  
is OK, but your previous one for gentoolkit only showed one of the two  
entries.  In this case, you probably need to upgrade gentoolkit and  
portage at the same time.

> 
> 
> On 05/16/20 17:38, n952162 wrote:
>> 
>> e.g.
>> 
>> sudo emerge -av =*sys-apps/portage-2.3.89-r3
>> <https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.3.89-r3.ebuild>*
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> I got (amongst tons of other stuff):
>> 
>>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>> 
>>   (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in  
>> by
>>     app-portage/gentoolkit required by @selected
>> 
>> On 05/16/20 16:19, Jack wrote:
>>> On 5/16/20 8:53 AM, n952162 wrote:
>>>> I did an emerge --sync and then "emerge -v1 portage" and it blew  
>>>> up all
>>>> over the place.  Log in the attachment.
>>>> 
>>>> How can I get things reestablished?  Or, does gentoo simply  
>>>> require a
>>>> smarter user than me, and I should go back to ubuntu?
>>> 
>>> I think the bottom line is that Gentoo needs to be updated more  
>>> often
>>> than yearly.  Others may also comment, but right now, I think a
>>> reinstall might be easier than working through all the problems,
>>> unless you are trying to learn more about how things work.
>>> 
>>> My first question is why you have portage-9999 unmasked?  I suggest
>>> going for the lowest version currently in the tree.  I'm not sure if
>>> your first step should really be portage itself, or upgrading
>>> packages where the installed version is now masked due to security
>>> errors or being too out of date.
>>> 
>>> Jack
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 05/14/20 23:36, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:10 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On 05/14/20 22:46, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:13 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 0
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>     * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_  
>>>>>>>> recommended
>>>>>>>>     * that you update portage now, before any other packages  
>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>> updated.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>     * To update portage, run 'emerge --oneshot portage' now.
>>>>>>> ...and?  Did you update portage as it was _highly_ recommended  
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> you do so first?  What version of portage are you using? This
>>>>>>> appears
>>>>>>> on the top line of emerge --info.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> $ emerge --info
>>>>>> Portage 2.3.49 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/x86/17.0,
>>>>>> gcc-7.3.0,
>>>>>> glibc-2.26-r7, 4.14.65-gentoo x86_64)
>>>>> That version of portage has been removed from the repo for over a
>>>>> year.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would update your system so that is current and then try  
>>>>> again.  I
>>>>> believe that version of portage should still support EAPI 7 but  
>>>>> there
>>>>> could be some other issue that is giving it problems with more  
>>>>> recent
>>>>> packages in the tree.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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