On 2019-10-12, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
>
>> right now the next update is looking **BAD**:
>>
>>
>>
>> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30
>> --verbose-conflicts --pretend
>
> What are you emerging here, @system or @world?
portage
Alan, what if you try updating gentoolkit and portage at the same time?
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>> [ebuild???????? U?? ] sys-apps/portage-2.3.76::gentoo [2.3.65::gentoo]
>> USE="(ipc) native-extensions rsync-verify xattr -build -doc -epydoc
>> -gentoo-dev (-selinux)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7
>> -pypy -python3_5" 1,010 KiB
>> [blocks B?????????? ] <app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6
>> ("<app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6" is blocking sys-apps/portage-2.3.76)
>
> Unmerge gentoolkit, then install the later version after portage if
> updated.
I don't think it's necessary to unmerge, just to update. I might be
wrong, but I believe the reason why portage isn't solving this block by
itself is because it was told to update portage only.
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Nuno Silva
