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?


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.
>