Michael Orlitzky schrieb:
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.
I´m trying to update a production server here. If I overwrite the whole
system, who knows what might break. I can take it down for a few
hours in the evening unless I want to work over night, which is not
really an option.
There must be a way to update a Gentoo installation without breaking it.
As wonderful as it otherwise is, updating Gentoo is always a nightmare which
makes me very seriously consider not to use it anymore. Updating needs to
be easy and flawless and not something you always run into weird issues
with.
Did they recently make a new liveDVD?
