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From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:38:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJjrzcV4TxXKbVFyi6ou1ux_RiHKaZ8doTkm+oVMzp0TnaOP9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201208090718.GA16745@waltdnes.org>

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.

Regards,
Arve


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-08  9:07 [gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update Walter Dnes
2020-12-08  9:38 ` Arve Barsnes [this message]
2020-12-08 10:00   ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-08 16:39   ` Walter Dnes

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