Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

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

On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote:
> On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote:
>> On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote:
>>> It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages  
>>> in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you  
>>> already read them elsewhere) and finish updating your config files  
>>> (or deleting the update files if you already updated the actual  
>>> config files.)  The more you can get emerge to stop saying, the  
>>> easier it is to read what it does say.
>> 
>> Okay, I'll give it a try ... actually, I did, back then.  I'm not  
>> sure why it didn't get marked as read.
>> 
>> But I'm really working blind on this machine.  I can't see what I  
>> type (which is one of the reasons I'm trying to update) -  
>> Furthermore, it's in a VM and I don't have X up so I have to put  
>> everything in a file and scp it around.
Ah, that does make things difficult.  I assume you don't have sshd  
running on that VM.  Being able to ssh in to a VM is often very  
helpful, but you need to have set it up before you have problems.   
Actually - if you can scp into the VM, you should be able to ssh.  Can  
you?  If you, you should be able to do all the edit and emerges that  
way.
>> 
>> But I'll try to get those things cleared up.
> 
> Ah, now I see:
> 
> !!! Error: cannot update list of news items for repository "gentoo"
Yes indeed, that's very odd.  What command is that in response to?  I  
would expect "emerge --sync" to update that, but I probably would not  
try that until you get portage straightened out.