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Januszzz
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:13 pm    Post subject: Fours years without upgrade - how to upgrade Portage now?:-) Reply with quote

Hello!

last updates:

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Wed Nov 5 02:40:35 2008 >>> dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r7
Sat Jan 3 01:16:55 2009 >>> app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19
Sat Jan 3 01:19:05 2009 >>> dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.2-r1
Sat Jan 3 01:19:14 2009 >>> app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1
Sat Jan 3 01:19:23 2009 >>> app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809
Sat Jan 3 01:19:27 2009 >>> app-admin/eselect-news-20080320
Sat Jan 3 01:19:42 2009 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4
Sat Jan 3 01:20:08 2009 >>> sys-devel/automake-1.10.2
Sat Jan 3 01:20:53 2009 >>> net-misc/rsync-3.0.4
Sat Jan 3 01:38:47 2009 >>> dev-db/mysql-5.0.70-r1
Wed Jan 14 23:13:33 2009 >>> app-admin/eselect-vi-1.1.5
Wed Jan 14 23:13:40 2009 >>> app-admin/eselect-ctags-1.5
Wed Jan 14 23:14:03 2009 >>> dev-util/ctags-5.7
Wed Jan 14 23:14:54 2009 >>> app-editors/vim-core-7.2
Wed Jan 14 23:16:34 2009 >>> app-editors/vim-7.2
Wed Jan 14 23:16:48 2009 >>> app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20070506
Wed Jan 14 23:28:40 2009 >>> net-mail/uw-mailutils-2007b
Wed Jan 14 23:30:38 2009 >>> mail-client/pine-4.64-r5
Thu Jan 15 00:59:59 2009 >>> app-arch/unzip-5.52-r2
Thu Jan 15 01:54:08 2009 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.33
Thu Jan 15 01:55:39 2009 >>> net-libs/c-client-2007e
Thu Jan 15 02:10:32 2009 >>> dev-lang/php-5.2.8-r1
Fri Feb 27 11:54:04 2009 >>> net-analyzer/mtr-0.73-r2
Mon Mar 16 15:17:23 2009 >>> net-dns/bind-9.4.3_p1
Thu Jun 18 15:16:01 2009 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13
Wed Oct 7 00:14:01 2009 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1
Wed Oct 7 08:40:07 2009 >>> media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9
Thu Oct 8 13:45:09 2009 >>> net-analyzer/mtr-0.73-r2
Mon Apr 19 11:15:08 2010 >>> app-antivirus/clamav-0.95.3
Wed Jun 30 21:31:51 2010 >>> www-client/links-2.2
Sun Feb 26 23:22:22 2012 >>> net-dns/dnstop-20090128


its been a while, now cannot install portage and upgrade Postgresql and most of the system as some packages require EAPI 3 or (oh Lord!) EAPI4.

After masking some Python and others I have:

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emerge portage -pv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-lang/python-2.7" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-lang/python-3.3.0 (masked by: EAPI 3)
- dev-lang/python-3.2.3-r1 (masked by: EAPI 3)
- dev-lang/python-3.2.3 (masked by: EAPI 3)
- dev-lang/python-3.1.5 (masked by: EAPI 3)
- dev-lang/python-2.7.3-r2 (masked by: package.mask)

The current version of portage supports EAPI '2'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.9" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "portage" [argument])



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Januszzz,

Get python and portage from the tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org to suit your arch.
These are portage binary packages intended for use by
Code:
emerge -K <package>


You can't do that, so treat them as mini stage3 files and use
Code:
tar xpf <file>  -C /

Ignore the extra garbage at end warning.

You are at the beginning of a very painful but very educational experience.
A reinstall will be much faster as you will have to pass through some of the intermediate stages the everyone else took in their stride.
e.g. glibc and gcc mutual blocks ... expat and others.

There are several threads on the forums that can help you out.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try:
Code:
USE="threads ssl" emerge -1 dev-lang/python:2.6
USE="python2 -python3" emerge -1 =sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.9
If I'm reading the ebuild right, and I like to think that I am, python:2.6 requires EAPI 2, and portage-2.1.11.9 requires either python:2.7 with threads or python:2.6 with threads and ssl. portage-2.1.11.9 supports EAPI 3, so once you get that you're golden.

You shouldn't need to muck around with manually masking packages, just specify the versions exactly.

If that doesn't work, what is the output from 'emerge --info'?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not entirely impossible… I just recently updated my install that hadn't been touched since Oct. 2010:

Code:
     Fri Oct  1 17:06:26 2010 >>> net-im/pidgin-2.7.3
     Fri Oct  1 17:08:10 2010 >>> gnome-extra/yelp-2.30.2
     Fri Oct  1 18:42:27 2010 >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.13
     Fri Oct  1 18:46:21 2010 >>> media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1
     Mon Aug 13 00:11:47 2012 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.9
     Mon Aug 13 00:15:03 2012 >>> app-shells/push-1.5
     Mon Aug 13 00:16:17 2012 >>> app-portage/eix-0.25.5


Had some fun with the libpng update and stuff, but overall, it wasn't too painful, really.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, but he'll have a lot more pain than you did. His is 4 years out of date. He'll probably have some kernel blocker too.

Januszzz There is one system package that won't work with older kernels. I don't recall which. Check out the sticky post in this forum about it. You will likely find it helpful.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also search Planet Gentoo for some posts regarding upgrading old installations. There has been a post or two over the past few months.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

F*ck all that, just reinstall. Spend the time you'd spend tearing your hair out to get past all the crap that's happened in the last 4 years, on tweaking the new install instead.

Backup your /home if it's not a separate partition (why not? change that on new install) /etc and /var/lib/portage/world. Forget about any sort of keywords et al, as it's all from years ago. Don't blindly copy anything from old /etc into new /etc, just have it there as reference. Same with world file, til your machine is booting and running again (ie before X.) Then bring up X and your DE, and once that's working, start looking at installing the apps you like.

Also, it's /etc/portage/make.conf this time around.

If you must upgrade, then update will help you get past those blockers. /etc/warning still has the detail about how to get past the dev-libs/expat-2 upgrade, as well as libpng and others. (Use the git version.)
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thank you guys very much!

The installation happens to be an old openvz container installed by me, and it is posssible to clone it more-or-less (reinstall and move services). Anyway this *will* also be pain in the ass as the container was very carefully designed and has waay to many services, gotchas here and there, some custom scripts and php code, some software is unsupported.... yuck :-)

Surprisingly, the host itself is fine. It seems someone was upgrading it blindly using Portage and allwent smoothly through those years. I wonder if he knew that it includes several containers (more zombies here!).

Again thank you very much, up until now I've moved some easier services from this sinking ship :-)
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pigeon768, this is for reference:

USE="threads ssl" emerge -1 dev-lang/python:2.6

dies with:


These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (masked by: EAPI 4)

The current version of portage supports EAPI '2'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "dev-lang/python-2.6.8" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "dev-lang/python:2.6" [argument])

I've decided to reinstall remotely, but its nice to know of course :-) regards.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just to close the subject: I've ended moving services, all went surprisingly fine - Postfix, Amavis, OpenLDAP, dovecot, mysql, postgres, bind, apache, webapps, ipsec, and many more didn't need so much tweaking. Especially Postfix didn't need any change :-) All services' problems were correctly in logs, it took exactly 4 hours and one night to clean some minor things like php code throwing errors due to versions change.

What happened to the container? well, after all was set up on shiny new gentoo in container, I took maany packages from tinderbox and sucesfully upgraded the old machine. No kernel blockers (there were no kernel dependent packages), all services more or less were able to start. But to be sure I had to spin emerge -e world. All upgrades took two days compilation, so it was rather wise to start from the beginning, especially there is no bloat here and there.

Thank you.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Januszzz,

Both glibc and udev depend on the kernel, to name but two.

However you don't get hard blocks because it OK to build udev and glibc against a kernel you don't have running.
Next boot, if you forget, you get to pick up the pieces.

How would you cross compile things that depend on the kernel otherwise.
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