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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why
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On 03/12/2020 20:33, n952162 wrote:
> I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks ago,
> but it seems not to work.  Can somebody explain to me why?

I've got a similar problem - an "emerge --sync" said "portage has been 
updated, you really should emerge it first before doing anything else". 
So I tried.

And it blew up very similarly to you, with loads of python problems. So 
I gambled on updating python (which it did) but no dice - portage still 
won't update.

(This is a new system that I'm still trying to setup.)

Cheers,
Wol