Sorry about top posting but I'm on the Kindle. How are you set for disk space? Consider creating a new partition and building a new install in a chroot. When it works then change grub and boot it for real. At least that won't hurt your working install.
Cheers, Mark On 1/22/12, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Ok, looks as though it's time for a manually-installed version of >>> python to upgrade portage, then a portage-installed python:2.6 to >>> bootstrap your way towards modernity. >>> >>> This is all explained here: >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml >>> >>> This may also help >>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5578709.html >> >> That last one mentioned --nodeps which gave me an idea. I did 'emerge >> -pv python' then emerged all of the packages listed with --nodeps so >> portage wouldn't complain. Portage wouldn't work after that until I >> switched back to python:2.5 with eselect. Then I emerged portage to >> the latest version (which switched back to python:2.6) and I'm hoping >> I can make some good progress before I come crying back to you guys >> again. >> >> - Grant > > I just did a 'ls -ltr /var/log/portage' and this thing hasn't been > updated in over 3 years. Wow. > > - Grant > >
