From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44FEC158008 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27F0CE09EA; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9559E0901 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q959t-0002TT-IX for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:38:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:38:05 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <62781de6-1696-1e3d-c316-c1cedc254383@gentoo.org> <241a4960-de51-4b18-7396-af4beb22434c@youngman.org.uk> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: b4c131a4-d08a-43dc-aeb9-925a2630726b X-Archives-Hash: 416c7e2b23a25b01d9bdbb5121ad7215 On 2023-06-12, Wol wrote: > On 09/06/2023 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> >>> If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag >>> which pulls it in. >>> >>> # USE="-rsync-verify" emerge sys-apps/portage >> >> The problem I ran into is that you never know how many issues there >> are standing in the way of upgrading. The one time I decided to muscle >> my way through updating an "obsolete" Gentoo install, [...] >> >> You do learn alot about how portage/emerge works... >> > Learning that is a good idea maybe :-) > > But last time I had a well-out-of-date system, it was a long and > messy process ... > > What I did was, every time portage said "giving up" or "conflict found" > or whatever, I just took a note of as many of the packages I could > remember that portage said it could emerge, and then manually updated > them "emerge --update --one-shot". > > And any conflicts, if I dared, I simply deleted then "emerge -C --one-shot". IIRC, at one point Python was one of those problems, and I stupidly removed Python before realizing what that meant... Hilarity ensued. Removing/skipping as many of the non-essential "big" packages and their dependancies and getting the base system updated is indeed the best way to go.