Re: [gentoo-user] Update circle

["Corentin “Nado” Pazdera" <nado@troglodyte.be>]

August 22, 2018 11:16 AM, "Zoltán Kócsi" <zoltan@bendor.com.au> wrote:

> Corentin,
> 
>> What does emerge -vuDN --verbose-conflicts --with-bdeps=y world say?
> 
> $ emerge -vuDN --verbose-conflicts --with-bdeps=y world
> 
> !!! Invalid news item:
> /usr/portage/metadata/news/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay/2017-11-21-old-wine-versio
> s-moving-to-overlay.en.txt !!!
> line 5: News-Item-Format: 2.0
> 
> [ ... several more warnings like the above ... ]
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> 
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> sys-apps/elfix
> 
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-portage/elt-patches-20170422"
> have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required
> to complete your request:
> - app-portage/elt-patches-20170826.1::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 6)
> - app-portage/elt-patches-20170815::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 6)
> - app-portage/elt-patches-20170422::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 6)
> 
> The current version of portage supports EAPI '5'. You must upgrade to a
> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.
> (dependency required by "app-admin/logrotate-3.9.1::gentoo" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> 
>> What’s your portage version?
> 
> $ equery -q list "*/*" | grep portage
> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.8-r2
> app-portage/pfl-2.4-r3
> app-portage/portage-utils-0.41
> sys-apps/portage-2.2.18
> 
>> What profile are you using? (eselect profile show)
> 
> $ eselect profile show
> Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink:
> hardened/linux/x86
> 
>> What is your gcc version?
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Gentoo 4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5) 4.7.3
> Copyright (C) [...]
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best Reagrds,
> 
> Zoltan

Given how old this system is, I think it will be easier to setup a chroot with latest stage3 and buildpkg system tools in it.
From the top of my head, you’d need to repackage portage and deps, python, gcc (you will love that one).
I suggest reading the wiki for gcc upgrades as 4.7.3 is really old.

Regards,
Corentin “Nado” Pazdera