On Sunday 10 May 2009 02:58:41 Alexey Luchko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I > suppose. > Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) > > But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update > is required. But it is confused by dependencies: > colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] > [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE="-examples% - > plugins%" > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] > [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [1.2.17] > [ebuild N ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE="-nocxx" > [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 > [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 [1.0.7] USE="-vim-syntax%" > [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 [0.1.15] > [blocks B ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.5 (is blocking app-shells/ > bash-3.2_p39) > colinux ~ #
Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone else fixed a while ago and since forgot. If you've never done this before, it's a good learning experience to do it (but only once). Thereafter, just reinstall - the pain of upgrading after 18 months just isn't worth it -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
