Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-15 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-15 16:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, June 15, 2020 1:26:06 PM CEST n952162 wrote: Thank you for the response. Unfortunately it didn't work. The logs are attached (tgt=portage, system, world) and summarized below. Perl keeps coming up as a problem, so, as an example, I tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, June 15, 2020 1:26:06 PM CEST n952162 wrote: > Thank you for the response. Unfortunately it didn't work. The logs are > attached (tgt=portage, system, world) and summarized below. > > Perl keeps coming up as a problem, so, as an example, I tried to build > perl, including all the

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:07:20 +0200, n952162 wrote: > I see that there are new lines in the dependencies table that I've never > encountered before: > >   [blocks B  ] (" x11-base/xorg-proto-2019.2) > > I get these (using the emerge from the git repository) for all of > @world, @system,

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-14 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-14 10:23, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-14 00:05, n952162 wrote: cool!  I'll give that a try tomorrow. Thank you. On 2020-06-13 21:42, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2020, 09:47:50 EEST schrieb n952162: I haven't clue what to do here.  Can somebody supply a good URL

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-14 Thread n952162
I took the plunge and changed from NAT to "bridged adapter" and I was able to ssh in - thank you for giving me the impetus. There are consequences of that change, I'm not sure what they all are ... so I won't leave it like this, but in order to figure out how to get my system up-to-date, it'll

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-14 Thread antlists
On 14/06/2020 08:01, n952162 wrote: I think the problem is, vbox's NAT interface acts as a router, but only uni-directionally.  That means, it will establish a "connection" for VM-initiated sessions, but there's no mechanism for establishing a session for external-initiated sessions. Somebody,

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-14 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 00:43, Jack wrote: On 2020.06.11 18:05, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:59, Jack wrote: On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-13 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 00:43, Jack wrote: That was just after letting "eselect news read" run through. That sounds like a permission problem, which may end up having an effect on your other efforts.  In my case, it is /usr/portage/metadata/news, and everything there is root:root and the actual news

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-13 Thread n952162
cool!  I'll give that a try tomorrow. Thank you. On 2020-06-13 21:42, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2020, 09:47:50 EEST schrieb n952162: I haven't clue what to do here. Can somebody supply a good URL or explanation? In the meantime a new ebuild format version (EAPI) has

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-13 Thread Andreas K . Hüttel
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2020, 09:47:50 EEST schrieb n952162: > I haven't clue what to do here. Can somebody supply a good URL or > explanation? > In the meantime a new ebuild format version (EAPI) has been introduced; your old portage can't process that, and as a result doesnt understand many

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:52:50 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:44:05 BST n952162 wrote: > > And, BTW, is there a reason to do @system if that's a subset of @world? > > To rebuild with the latest gcc and work through any convoluted dependencies > cutting across into world. It

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:05:04 BST Jack wrote: > On 2020.06.12 10:38, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> What about some sort of tagging? Not bundling or packaging, just > >> occasional (quarterly?) labels, with a matrix indicating how > >> difficult it

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.12 10:38, Michael wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: What about some sort of tagging? Not bundling or packaging, just occasional (quarterly?) labels, with a matrix indicating how difficult it would be to upgrade. A hint to folks who tend to update less

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:48 AM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-12 16:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: > >> > >> Perhaps I misunderstand this, but isn't it as simple as booting off a > >> LiveCD/ > >> USB, chrooting, changing profiles, cleaning up world

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:44:05 BST n952162 wrote: > On 2020-06-12 16:38, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > >> BTW,

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:38 AM Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > > On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > > Ultimately if there was enough interest in something like this the > > > solution would probably be another distro that just repackages

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:42:52 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: > >On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > >> >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 16:38, Michael wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 16:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand this, but isn't it as simple as booting off a LiveCD/ USB, chrooting, changing profiles, cleaning up world file and letting rip with a full 'emerge -e' @system, followed by @world

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: >On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: >> >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: >> BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least > ever few months? :) > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Jack
On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few months? :) Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous. If you have gentoo in embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > > > >> > >> BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least > >> ever few months? :) > > > > > > Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous. If you have gentoo in > > embedded systems,

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:40 AM n952162 wrote: > > Presumably, 13.0, unless some process had already made the 13.0 -> 17.0 > jump without my knowledge. Ok, you're in fairly uncharted waters. The impact is mainly to gcc so if you haven't updated that then most likely nothing is broken yet, and

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few months?  :) Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous.  If you have gentoo in embedded systems, you've got to spend considerable administrative effort in each one just

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 01:09, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:45 PM n952162 wrote: * portage-2.3.89-bug-718578.patch BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Please follow the instructions in the news item: * 2019-06-05-amd64-17-1-profiles-are-now-stable * or choose the

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:45 PM n952162 wrote: > > > * portage-2.3.89-bug-718578.patch BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * Please follow the instructions in the news item: > * 2019-06-05-amd64-17-1-profiles-are-now-stable > * or choose the 17.0 profile. > * ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.11 18:05, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:59, Jack wrote: On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 23:59, Jack wrote: On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you already read them

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 23:45, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:20, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:43 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 22:35, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:28 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: Try: USE="python_targets_python3_6

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you already read them elsewhere) and finish updating

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 23:20, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:43 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 22:35, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:28 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: Try: USE="python_targets_python3_6 -python_targets_python3_7

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 23:06, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. (dependency required

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you already read them elsewhere) and finish updating your config files (or deleting the update

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:43 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-11 22:35, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:28 PM n952162 wrote: > >> On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> Try: > >>> USE="python_targets_python3_6 -python_targets_python3_7 -rsync-verify" > >>> emerge -p1v

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you already read them elsewhere) and finish updating your config files (or deleting the update files if you already updated the

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 22:35, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:28 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: Try: USE="python_targets_python3_6 -python_targets_python3_7 -rsync-verify" emerge -p1v =sys-apps/portage-2.3.99-r2 Sorry, try again. * IMPORTANT: 2 config

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > >> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a > >> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. > >> (dependency required by > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Jack
It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you already read them elsewhere) and finish updating your config files (or deleting the update files if you already updated the actual config files.) The more

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:36 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 14:47, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: Most likely what you're probably going to end up wanting to try is: USE="python_targets_python3_6

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:28 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Try: > > USE="python_targets_python3_6 -python_targets_python3_7 -rsync-verify" > > emerge -p1v =sys-apps/portage-2.3.99-r2 > > > > Sorry, try again. > > * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc/portage'

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:36 PM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 14:47, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: Most likely what you're probably going to end up wanting to try is: USE="python_targets_python3_6

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:36 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-11 14:47, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > Most likely what you're probably going to end up wanting to try is: > > USE="python_targets_python3_6 -python_targets_python3_7" emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 14:47, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: sudo emerge -vauU portage 2>&1 | tee -a portage.200611 !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: sys-apps/portage:0 selected:

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-11 10:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:47:50 +0200, n952162 wrote: I haven't clue what to do here.  Can somebody supply a good URL or explanation? The emerge(1) man page says:    EAPI   The EAPI variable in an ebuild(5) file is used to mask packages that are

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:10 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > sudo emerge -vauU portage 2>&1 | tee -a portage.200611 > > > > !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied > > dependencies: > > > > sys-apps/portage:0 > > > >selected:

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:47:50 +0200, n952162 wrote: > I haven't clue what to do here.  Can somebody supply a good URL or > explanation? > > The emerge(1) man page says: > >    EAPI   The EAPI variable in an ebuild(5) file is used to mask > packages that are not >   supported 

[gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread n952162
I haven't clue what to do here.  Can somebody supply a good URL or explanation? The emerge(1) man page says:    EAPI   The EAPI variable in an ebuild(5) file is used to mask packages that are not   supported  by  the  current  version of portage. Packages masked by EAPI can