-----Original Message----- From: BRM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2008 9:10 AM To: Users Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...
I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get new hardware. Some things are going okay - I got it past the e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-lib update fiasco (after hosing it and using GRML to get it back up). However, I'm now stuck. emerge world -vuDN won't complete because a package can't use "java-config", complaining about python-updater needing to be run. However, python-updater won't run because the of blocks due to software being outdated and masked. So it's a catch-22. I need to install a new java-config and other software before I can get python-updater to run, but the emerge won't go through without running python-updater for at least one package. Any ideas on how to resolve? TIA, Ben Try running python-updater for one package at a time and see what happens? Once it gets past one or two it might not complain at you as much.
