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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/$ARCH)
are not EAPI 5 capable. These profiles are inherited by both the default
and hardened profiles and contain arch-specific settings. They are often
used to override masks set in the base profile.
[...]
Here are a couple of alternatives:
1. Add profiles/eapi-5-files/$ARCH.
2. Add profiles/$ARCH/eapi-5-files.
Here's option 3:
In a few days the one year waiting time after making EAPI5 profiles the
default is over, and (pending revisit by the council and agreement) the whole
profiles tree can be switched to EAPI5.
This means the files from the eapi-5-files directory move to a more central
location and the eapi-5-files directory can be removed.
With that change the arch dirs automatically also become EAPI5 capable if
done
properly.
See also
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130108-summary.txt
Best a happy new year,
Andreas
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really, really, really outdated systems.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.
Thanks!
Zero_Chaos
PS You can skip review of the body line lengths, I will adjust them to
spec (72) as needed after the review, any and all current linewrap is
from my email client.
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Title: Profile EAPI 5 requirement
Author: Zero_Chaos zeroch...@gentoo.org
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Posted: 2014-03-02
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In its last session, the Gentoo council decided that the
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
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:
1.) Do not panic.
2.) Download a portage snapshot from
http://dev.gentoo.org/~zerochaos/snapshots
3.) Unpack the snapshot to /tmp/
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.
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