>> I have an old Gentoo system that hasn't been updated or used at all in
>> at least 2 years. It's remote but I have SSH access. I've updated
>> portage but I thought I should check with you guys before I plow ahead
>> with emerge -DuN world. It won't be used for anything until I bring
>> it up to speed and someone can physically log in and issue commands a
>> couple times per week so an outage isn't the end of the world. Any
>> advice?
>
> Take small steps. emerge -pv @system first and be prepared to emerge
> packages a few at a time.
Weird, it looks like portage didn't update to the latest version.
emerging it again seems to want to update it again. I get this:
# emerge -pv portage
[snip]
[ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3 [2.5.2-r7] USE="gdbm ncurses
readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml -berkdb -build -doc -examples
-ipv6 -sqlite -tk -wininst" 11,494 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.41 [2.1.6.13] USE="(ipc%*)
-build -doc -epydoc -python2% -python3% (-selinux) (-less%*)"
LINGUAS="-pl" 899 kB
[blocks B ] dev-lang/python:2.7 ("dev-lang/python:2.7" is blocking
sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13)
[blocks B ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.9 ("<sys-apps/portage-2.1.9" is
blocking dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3)
I think I'll be able to resolve most stuff myself but this one is
tricking me. I don't want to mess around unmerging python or portage.
- Grant
