On 08/24/2016 11:32 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomia...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, so >> we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old systems. > > What's the time frame for lifting that restriction? > > There are some key packages that base-system does not maintain, and it > would be good to have a documented guideline for it. > > For example, I maintain the dev-lang/python ebuilds, and I will > probably be jumping to EAPI 6 whenever Python 3.6 is released. >
The EAPI=6 upgrade is probably already hosed; there was recently a thread on -user where a guy tried to update after 1.5 years and some dependency required EAPI=6 and his portage couldn't do it. The simple solution appears to be to download a new copy of portage and run it right out of the source tree until your system can do EAPI=6.
