problems when updating portage(tinygentoo)

[Adel Ahmed]

I'm up to the part where I need to upgrade portage, I'm following the wiki entry: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TinyGentoo
I'm stuck at this bit

localhost / # emerge -uv portage

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

Calculating dependencies -
!!! 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-3.0.13 (masked by: EAPI 5, invalid: SLOT is undefined)
- dev-libs/libffi-3.0.12 (masked by: EAPI 5, invalid: SLOT is undefined)
- dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (masked by: EAPI 4, invalid: SLOT is undefined)

The current version of portage supports EAPI '1'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r5" [ebuild])

I tried the workout in the wiki:
quickpkg --include-config=y portage
and copied the tarball into the chroot environment, and extracted, now I get:

emerge -au portage
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 52
except PermissionDenied as e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax



thanks

[NeddySeagoon]

blakdeath,

You need both a newer portage and a newer python to support the newer portage.
Thats a bit chicken and egg because portage is written in python.

There are some old portage versions left in the tree for things like this. You need to update portage to the limit of yhat supported by yuor python, then update python, then update portage again. You may need to do this several times.

As you have got a portage thats too new for your python, you need to update python the same way as you did for portage.
You will also need eselect-python, as there is now python-2 and python-3. Get the newest python-2 and then select it as your system python.

This python update will break a lot of things that use python. Be sure to run python-updater to fix them.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[Adel Ahmed]

well I tried using quikpkg to update python< i had 2.4, I installed both 2.7 & 3.2, and I keep getting the same error, and since portage isn't working I cannot update any package of any sort

[NeddySeagoon]

blakdeath,

What about eselect python ?
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[Adel Ahmed]

bash: eselect: command not found

[NeddySeagoon]

blakdeath,

Thats a problem then. You either need eselect with its python module to set up your python to work or you need to make symlinks by hand.
eselect has been around for a long time but the python module was created when python-2 and python-3 needed to be installed side by side.
From my system.

[Adel Ahmed]

here's my directory after linking python to python 2.7

localhost bin # ls python* -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 25 2008 python -> python2.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 25 2008 python-config -> python-config-2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1624 Mar 17 2008 python-config-2.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 2 17:08 python-config-2.7 -> python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 2 17:07 python-config-3.2 -> python3.2-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 25 2008 python2 -> python2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5140 Mar 17 2008 python2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10584 Apr 1 21:41 python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1400 Apr 1 21:41 python2.7-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12784 Apr 23 22:04 python3.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1601 Apr 23 22:03 python3.2-config


now I get :
bash: /usr/bin/emerge: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

[NeddySeagoon]

blakdeath

[Adel Ahmed]

sorry that was the old one;
here's the new result:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 3 07:11 python -> python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 25 2008 python-config -> python-config-2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1624 Mar 17 2008 python-config-2.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 2 17:08 python-config-2.7 -> python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 2 17:07 python-config-3.2 -> python3.2-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 25 2008 python2 -> python2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5140 Mar 17 2008 python2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10584 Apr 1 21:41 python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1400 Apr 1 21:41 python2.7-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12784 Apr 23 22:04 python3.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1601 Apr 23 22:03 python3.2-config


emerge -au portage
bash: /usr/bin/emerge: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
is the new result

[Adel Ahmed]

help anyone?

[Adel Ahmed]

I tried the process all over
I'm getting the same result
any help on updating python?