e.g.
sudo emerge -av =sys-apps/portage-2.3.89-r3
?On 5/16/20 8:53 AM, n952162 wrote:
I did an emerge --sync and then "emerge -v1 portage" and it blew up all
over the place. Log in the attachment.
How can I get things reestablished? Or, does gentoo simply require a
smarter user than me, and I should go back to ubuntu?
I think the bottom line is that Gentoo needs to be updated more often than yearly. Others may also comment, but right now, I think a reinstall might be easier than working through all the problems, unless you are trying to learn more about how things work.
My first question is why you have portage-9999 unmasked? I suggest going for the lowest version currently in the tree. I'm not sure if your first step should really be portage itself, or upgrading packages where the installed version is now masked due to security errors or being too out of date.
Jack
On 05/14/20 23:36, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:10 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
On 05/14/20 22:46, Rich Freeman wrote:That version of portage has been removed from the repo for over a year.
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:13 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:$ emerge --info
Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 0...and? Did you update portage as it was _highly_ recommended that
* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
* that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
* To update portage, run 'emerge --oneshot portage' now.
you do so first? What version of portage are you using? This appears
on the top line of emerge --info.
Portage 2.3.49 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/x86/17.0, gcc-7.3.0,
glibc-2.26-r7, 4.14.65-gentoo x86_64)
I would update your system so that is current and then try again. I
believe that version of portage should still support EAPI 7 but there
could be some other issue that is giving it problems with more recent
packages in the tree.