On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it > needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. > > I´m running into merge conflicts when trying to update portage, and > apparently one of the packages (dev-python/cryptography) I could try > to update first to be able to update portage requires a version of > portage that can handle EAPI 6 packages. >
Try the other suggestions first -- but as a last resort -- you can always grab a new stage3 that should contain an updated version of portage and simply overwrite the portage files on your machine. A quickpkg from another Gentoo machine (or the liveCD?) would also work.
