On 2019-12-18, Ilya Trukhanov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a >> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. > > The message is pretty clear. You need to upgrade portage first. Try > `emerge -1 portage`. This should take care of the EAPI message.
The EAPI problem is in a package that is pulled as a dependency of portage. Unless there's a simple hack to solve this, you will need to use older ebuilds or split the update in several steps, using older versions of the portage tree. The following notes show a way of achieving this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/HOWTO_Update_Old_Gentoo -- Nuno Silva
