On Sunday, 13 December 2020 08:57:53 GMT n952162 wrote:
> On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > There's a lot to trawl through here, it looks like you haven't updated
> > 
> >>> for quite some time.
> >> 
> >> The (compressed) log of  a system and world update from 20. October
> >> (2020!) is attached.
> > 
> > Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms.
> 
> !!!  After 2 months the system can no longer be update-able?

A system can be updated and updatable after more than two months, but be 
prepared for some manual intervention and a staged approach to running emerge.  
Starting with 'eselect news read new' is advisable for any heads up to changes 
in gentoo, major packages and configuration.

Also pay attention to any messages on the CLI when you run emerge about 
packages which are due to be removed from portage, as you will need to take 
care of these manually in your local or some external 3rd party overlay.


> > ...
> > 
> >>>    What do
> >>> 
> >>> grep -r python3_6 /etc/portage
> >> 
> >> That showed that the only references are in package.use
> > 
> > But what does it show. We need the output of commands, not some vague
> > reference to them. I suspected there was something in package.use, but we
> > need to know what. Those references should probably be removed but no one
> > can say for sure without seeing them.
> 
> Oh sorry.  You mentioned
> 
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6"
> 
> and I didn't connect that with USE variables.  Here there are (with comments
> removed)

It isn't just USE flags for python-3.6 you may have set up yourself, but USE 
flags for any python version you have specified.  Under normal circumstances 
you would not need to specify these yourself and pegging python at a 
particular version is bound to cause warnings later on, when that python 
version has been deprecated and is no longer available in portage.


> $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python3_6/p' /etc/portage/package.use/*
> 
> >=dev-python/certifi-10001-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/requests-2.24.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/chardet-3.0.4-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/idna-2.10-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/urllib3-1.25.11 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/cryptography-3.2.1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r3 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/pycparser-2.20-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/ply-3.11-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/PySocks-1.7.1-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/pyopenssl-19.1.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/setuptools-50.3.0 python_targets_python3_6
> >=dev-python/six-1.15.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6

Why had you set up these in your package.use?

If you comment them out and re-run emerge are you getting any more warnings/
errors?