On 2023-06-12, Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 09/06/2023 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier <bil...@gentoo.org> 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 But last time I had a well-out-of-date system, it was a long and 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.
