On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:13:09 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 10/12/2017 14:54, John Covici wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:36:19 -0500, > > Kent Fredric wrote: > >> > >> [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>] > >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:17:09 -0500 > >> John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > >> > >>> OK, thanks, I think I will try that. > >> > >> The problem you're facing is that you masked dev-lang/perl, but not any > >> virtual/perl-* or perl-core/-* to compensate. > >> > >> These 3 components work in concert like a single component, as a sort > >> of bodge to compensate for the fact portage has no working "provides" > >> feature, > >> and to compensate for the dependency-system missmatch between how > >> Gentoo works and how CPAN works. > >> > >> Theres' no easy way of fixing this atm, but the short of it is if you're > >> using > >> an ~arch dev-lang/perl, you should be using an ~arch virtual/perl-*, > >> and if you're using an "arch" dev-lang/perl, you should be using only > >> "arch" versions of virtual/perl-* > >> > >> Once you do this, portage may still scream at you, because portage is > >> very much optimised for upgrading, and it tends to think downgrading is > >> an error. > >> > >> So once you get all your masks/keyword changes in place, you should do: > >> > >> emerge -C virtual/perl-* > >> emerge -C perl-core/* > >> > >> (or something to that effect) > >> > >> This looks scary, but generally isn't, because you're not actually removing > >> anything with this, just juggling a few balls and making only older > >> versions of certain things available ( as they're alls shipped in > >> dev-lang/perl ) > >> > >> And then after you do this, portage is more likely to be persuadable > >> into doing the right thing. > >> > >> You can additionally abuse my tool, gentoo-perl-helpers for doing some of > >> this, > >> and some of the steps I've described are automated because they're just > >> that safe and useful. > >> > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Perl#app-admin.2Fgentoo-perl-helpers > >> > >> > >> After putting the right masks in place, do: > >> > >> gentoo-perl gen-upgrade-sets 5.26 5.24 > >> > >> And if you're really lucky, the sets it generates will work the first time > >> :) > >> > >> ( I actually tested this scenario when developing it, but its still an > >> undocumented use on purpose ) > >> > >> GLHF. > > > > I went ahead and did the upgrade which worked, but the emerge from > > perl-cleaner --all did not. I am using ~amd64 and have done so for > > years, so I don't think I need to maks off anything. I seem now to be > > stuck with dev-python/setuptools, so I am now trying to figure out why > > I can't emerge that -- it was triggered by the perl-cleaner --all . > > > > How recent is your tree? > > I had issues with setuptools doing the first run through the 17.0 > upgrade. I never looked into it too closely, I used --keep-going, but > setuptools seemed to think I had a useable python-3.4 > > After the first run through emerge -e world, nuking-python-3.4 and > re-syncing, setuptols worked normally again. > > YMMV of course where you are
My tree maybe 30 days old or thereabouts. I could not run the emerge from perl-cleaner because of setup-tools problems. I will see what happens if I run a regular update, but I hate to do that if I am going to do an -e world. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com