On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:17:58 +0100 <[email protected]> (Nuno Silva) wrote:
> [...] > The biggest hurdle in your case is that you need to update tar. Do > what was already mentioned elsewhere in the thread, fetch the older > EAPI 5 ebuild, put it in the local overlay and let portage grab that. Thanks, I will try to do that. > [...] > Some recent issues were a change in the C++ ABI and the build system > change in certain X11-related packages that pulls python3 as a build > dependency. The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing its job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it ain't broken, don't fix it. But the important thing is that it has no X11, pretty much nothing apart from the basic system and a handful of network daemons. Now it needs one more daemon and that started the whole exercise. Thanks, Regards, Zoltan
