On Sunday, November 4, 2018 6:31:53 PM CET Daniel Frey wrote: > Hi all, > > I had an older machine "appliance" (mythtv-frontend) that hadn't had an > update in a while (migrated to 29.1 yesterday/today.) > > I searched around on the mailing list as portage advised updating itself > but it got itself in a circular dependency with python and wanted to > install an unstable version of portage as a result, which I didn't want. > > After wasting 30 minutes waiting for portage to calculate dependencies > (using --backtrack=1000) I got po'ed and forced python to install using > --nodeps. This worked, I was able to install portage and continue > updating my system from there. > > The problem is there's no more python-updater to make sure that python > is in a sane state. Any suggestions for making sure python is actually > in a sane state? > > Dan
I usually do a full rebuild of everything (using --empty) in a chroot and then update using binary packages on the main system if I haven't done an update in a long time. If it's just python you want to be sure of, you can check the "Version upgrade" steps listed on: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python -- Joost
