Re: [gentoo-user] Update circle

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

August 22, 2018 10:25 AM, "Zoltán Kócsi" <zoltan@bendor.com.au> wrote:

> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite
> a long while, actually.
> 
> Now I needed to install a package, and I did so. It went up, no
> problem. Except that it relies on a newer version of openrc than
> what's on the system. From here it's all downhill:
> 
> emerge openrc:
> - Fails, as the current portage is EAPI 5 (whatever that is), thus all
> EAPI 6 packages are masked. Must upgrade portage.
> 
> emerge portage:
> - Fails, as it needs tar-1.30 and the installed tar is 1.27. Must update
> tar.
> 
> emerge tar:
> - Fails, as tar-1.30 needs EAPI 6. Must upgrade portage.
> 
> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the
> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and
> running) system must be updated somehow.
> 
> I would appreciate any advice, I'm in complete darkness about the
> internal workings of portage (would be happy to find some detailed docs
> about that, by the way, preferably in PDF).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Zoltan

What does emerge -vuDN --verbose-conflicts --with-bdeps=y world say?
What’s your portage version?
What profile are you using? (eselect profile show)
What is your gcc version?


Regards,
Corentin “Nado” Pazdera