On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Steven J. Long
sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.ukwrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:53:57PM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote:
On 12/31/2013 06:43 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
Am Dienstag, 31. Dezember 2013, 23:30:14 schrieb Mike Gilbert:
I have noticed that the arch profile directories (profiles/arch/$ARCH)
are not EAPI 5 capable. These profiles are inherited by both the
default
and hardened profiles and contain arch-specific settings. They are
often
used to override masks set in the base profile.
To ease this transition, I've drafted a news item based on info from
zmedico's blog about when eapi 5 was first supported.
This is, in my eyes, the simplest way to transition users who may be on
really, really, really outdated systems. It occurred to me I could make
a minimal snapshot instead, but it seems much much safer to do this for
now. Please review the news article.
I agree, and it's much appreciated.
Just a couple of minor typos.
Title: Profile EAPI 5 requirement
Author: Zero_Chaos zeroch...@gentoo.org
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2014-03-02
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: 2.2.0_alpha130
In its last session, the Gentoo council decided that the
Capital 'C' for Council, same as Trustees.
entire profile tree will be updated to require EAPI=5 support.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20140114.txt
For all non-deprecated profiles this requirement has already been in
place for
over one year. If you have updated your system at any point during 2013,
and
followed the instructions in the profile deprecation warnings (which
cannot really easily be overlooked), and are running an up-to-date
portage
version, there is absolutely nothing that you need to do now.
If you are running an installation that has not been updated for more
than a
year, the portage tree you have just updated to is may be incompatible
s/is //
with your
portage version, and the profile you are using may be gone.
It is still possible to upgrade, if you follow these simple steps:
I'd: s/if you follow/following/ (less to read, less conditional)
but it's not an error of any sort.
1.) Do not panic.
Heh I like :)
2.) Download a portage snapshot from
http://dev.gentoo.org/~zerochaos/snapshots
3.) Unpack the snapshot to /tmp/
I'd honestly just write this in a script and give it to the users. There
are problems with it like:
When to use root.
Unpacking stuff in /tmp is difficult to do safely due to rampant symlink
attacks.
The URL to download may change.
Finding the correct portdir (might not be /usr/portage.)
-A
4.) If you are not already, become root
5.) rsync --recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --force
- --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --exclude=/distfiles
- --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --verbose --progress
- --omit-dir-times /tmp/portage /usr/portage
6.) If needed, set your profile to a modern one (typically named 13.0)
7.) emerge --update --oneshot portage
Now that you have a modern copy of portage, you can go back to updating
your system as usual.
Please update your system at LEAST twice a year to avoid issues like
this in the future.
Thanks for flying Gentoo.
Now I see why you were asking about default rsync in #-portage :)
Very nice, and thanks for doing this.
Regards,
igli
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