2015-01-30 12:48 GMT-06:00 symack <sym...@gmail.com>:
> Please excuse me, as I am new to gentoo:
>
Then you shouldn't be upgrading systems that you cannot have downtime,
take your time to play around with disposable installations(VMs ,
containers, etc..).
> %)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3* (-pypy) -python3_4 (-pypy1_9%)
> (-pypy2_0%) (-python2_6%) (-python3_1%) (-python3_2%*)" 876 kB
> [blocks B ] <dev-python/python-exec-10000
> ("<dev-python/python-exec-10000" is blocking dev-lang/python-exec-2.0.1-r1)
>
> I am trying to get by this block, and my approach would be to unmerge python
dev-lang/python != dev-(python|lang)/python-exec
DON'T unmerge python, remember emerge runs on python, you will likely
be unable to use the package manager if you do that.
there's a news item(the 12th) regarding this, read it, the
instructions are there.
> then reinstall however, would really like
> some advice from the experts on this.
I'm not an expert, but in your situation I would make a chroot, copy
the /etc/portage configuration files, upgrade in the chroot generating
binary packages[1] and then upgrade from the binaries. it takes much
less time to upgrade when you have everything compiled, and you only
need to 'merge' it.
[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide
