Re: [gentoo-user] Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:40:36 -0400,
Nikolay Pulev wrote:
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> Hi community,
> 
> This is my first reach out to you. I have not update my machine for a long
> time and have no reached a point where I can't install or upgrade packages.
> My first concern is to update portage, however I get the error below error.
> Does anybody have any suggestions how I could progress with my machine
> update?
> 
> # emerge --oneshot sys-apps/portage
> 
>  * IMPORTANT: 15 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
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> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> 
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
> ">=app-portage/gemato-14.5[python_targets_pypy3(-)?,python_targets_python3_10(-)?,python_targets_python3_11(-)?]"
> have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - app-portage/gemato-9999::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 8)
> - app-portage/gemato-20.4::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 8)
> - app-portage/gemato-20.2::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 8)
> - app-portage/gemato-20.1::gentoo (masked by: EAPI 8)
> 
> The current version of portage supports EAPI '7'. You must upgrade to a
> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.
> (dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-3.0.45.3-r2::gentoo" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "sys-apps/portage" [argument])
> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

If it were me, I would either reinstall from scratch, or change your
repository to use git and check out old enough versions so you could
get one two months after your current version, and update to that,
then advance your git by a couple of months and try again and
gradually get up to date.  Its going to be a real PITA, I am sure, so
consider a re install.

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