Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-22 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Ühel kenal päeval, L, 21.08.2021 kell 14:01, kirjutas Michael: > I can't recall coming come across this problem myself, probably > because I tend to leave emerge updates to finish, or resume from > where I had stopped an update.  Is this a an error portage should be > able to deal with itself when

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-21 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:11:59 BST Andrea Conti wrote: > >> This may help: > >> > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Fixing_broken_portage > > It will not help in this case, since what's broken is python and not > portage. > > If that won't work for whatever reason, chroot into

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Andrea Conti
I've bitten by this too... the problem is that portage does not follow a particular order when rebuilding subslot deps, so when upgrading dev-libs/libffi (in this case from 0/7 to 0/8) it can schedule lots of other packages between when the new libffi is installed and when python is rebuilt.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:08:26 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Apparently installing libffi-compat will un-hose my system where ALL > > SOFTWARE that needs FFI thru python is broken, especially all portage > > tooling... > > > > Is there a repository and walkthru for installing this? > > This may help

[gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Alan Grimes
Apparently installing libffi-compat will un-hose my system where ALL SOFTWARE that needs FFI thru python is broken, especially all portage tooling... Is there a repository and walkthru for installing this? Am I really the world's unluckiest gentoo user or was the pooch really screwed on this issu

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 August 2021 07:55:34 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > Apparently installing libffi-compat will un-hose my system where ALL > SOFTWARE that needs FFI thru python is broken, especially all portage > tooling... > > Is there a repository and walkthru for installing this? This may help: https:/