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USE="-xattr" emerge -lv portage fails

I've only installed Gentoo twice. For my second I last updated at least 11 months ago. I never got X to not hard lockup the PC.

Now when I try to update I'm blocked by masked EAPI 6, apparently needed to update portage before anything else can be updated. Following is the tail of .bash_history:

Code:

## ~11 months ago tail

eselect news read

rc-update

emerge --deselect dev-haskell/hostname

emerge --depclean

emerge -s droid

emerge --ask media-fonts/droid

emerge -s liberation

emerge --ask media-fonts/liberation-fonts

emerge -s dejavu

emerge -s libertine

emerge --ask media-fonts/libertine

startx IceWM 

qlist -ICv > pkglist-201508080700.txt

ll

mc

dfsee

uname -a

reboot

grub

mc

reboot

mc

##        current

emerge -sync

emerge --sync

emerge --update @world

emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y @world

USE="-xattr" emerge -lv portage

Tail of result of last command:

Code:

(dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.3.51::gentoo" [ebuild])

(dependency required by "portage" [argument])

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge

man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

I was trying to follow https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handboo...orking/Portage and Upgrading Portage to support EAPI 6 to come up with what I tried. Is there a relatively simple fix for this, or should I give up and install fresh?

See if you can emerge the "required dependency" mentioned before the "(dependency required by...". If the system has not been updated for some time, there may be some packages that need to be updated to be able to emerge portage. If you do not have 'app-portage/eix':

Quote:

emerge eix
eix-update
eix -c --installed-masked

This will give you the list of masked packages. You may need to update some of these packages before being able to emerge portage. In any case, these packages should be mentioned in the output of emerging portage.

Cheers!

portage, eix, dev-lang/python-exec, elt-patches are all masked by EAPI 6. :-(

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda (Post 5925868)

portage, eix, dev-lang/python-exec, elt-patches are all masked by EAPI 6. :-(

What about using an old portage snapshot (also covered in the gentoo wiki).

Cheers!