From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87F201382C5 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46942E08AE; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ed1-f42.google.com (mail-ed1-f42.google.com [209.85.208.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1322E0887 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ed1-f42.google.com with SMTP id g1so4936215edv.6 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:07:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=OoTU8Xc5RZ819EuwPNdB6uS2K49F75qxey3JAEFXyHg=; b=J/pP4v3ePJRQN4ayugsekqWBVvujmhJeysULG1Mw+QzOvnuMX94wWF9nNVN7EouvPH Sh0g3uStqMVQ2aKaL3chzv4FA4tNnjG8SWqE3lkfMctTnoVu2rkCVxwPwRZdbHcy3S2v pDOD4+W2jZhzaLX4f+TepV7QT7JWivkY9adPHLoZ6F7DQx6v0KRBUmd1lFKCsatV3nyY fd9W5dC3A8fEOFGM9chjDiF42uT4XgJxghryhjBAjISmZ8uWukJH81cgKB8D42euAblw GqGEmLJ7ZtPWsmfY3dPjDRJHUtiNVolQBfZo6nsX47IrtHO2SUV07ukJc1ZJfFv1AkHx bzeQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533GL9C+pT0gP/dCqJwrmWZzQY9JRONUL/QGfpQWIutodv/DVqMU tMuVCPACpNuKqyRXkkjPPJtwP4JN8TS2Di/yWGD0+j49 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwGz6mf/xEHwnMapT4dvHycXf4DM3JAvG462yZ0Cdc5bXbWGD0ocAB0mjLb11YDB0yMSYpNsH8QpFpKtCf9yHs= X-Received: by 2002:a50:f052:: with SMTP id u18mr8522464edl.16.1591909629408; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <9ed9c401-7066-9c6d-8ce4-2ee94a1b903e@web.de> <20200611091031.770b9102@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:06:58 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 9de7bcd0-3994-4499-ad17-b6232c5c0564 X-Archives-Hash: 29b3384350593b9228d1d4e4347b4769 On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > >> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a > >> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. > >> (dependency required by > >> "sys-apps/portage-9999::gentoo[-build,rsync-verify]" [ebuild]) > >> (dependency required by "sys-apps/portage" [argument]) > > Why are you installing portage-9999 now? This is going to be masked > > unless you've jumped through some hoops. > > ??? I didn't specify that! I put it in the config file because emerge > told me to. I have no idea what 9999 really does. It will do something different depending on what day of the week you run it - literally. -9999 will pull the latest master branch from git and install it - you do NOT want to do this. Most likely emerge was trying to be "helpful" and being overly literal about something you told it to do. I'd go ahead and "grep -r 9999 /etc/portage" - anything that it returns that looks like a package-version combo should almost certainly be deleted unless you REALLY know what you're doing. However, that last email I sent should be pretty likely to get portage updated. I just don't want to see you updating to -9999 the next time you go to do something. At that point you'll no longer get any automatic updates in it and you'll be running unreleased code. You would need to fix your config files and downgrade. -- Rich