I Broke Python! [SOLVED]

[Illiander]

This may be better in this subforum, so crossposting:

I've been bad, and haven't updated my gentoo for far too long, and now I'm trying to bring it up-to-date.

I ran emerge --sync.

It told me to update portage asap (I was planning on updating gcc&friends first, but if portage says it's more important, I trust it)

Portage update hit a bunch of slot conflicts with Python. Normally with conflicts I'm comfortable just uninstalling things and letting portate handle installing the right thing, but I'm far less comfortable doing that with python, since it's so core to the system.

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Edit:

I messed up BAD

So, standard procedure for dealing with conflits is to remove it and let emerge figure it out cleanly.

I set python targets to 3_8 and 3_9, python single target to 3_8. Didn't help.

I pulled python 2.7. Didn't help.

I pulled python-exec. Emerge now doesn't work. How bad is this?

[xahodo]

Wasn't there a tarball somewhere which you could unpack and which would give you the most recent portage and needed stuffs (like python)?

EDIT: Does this help?

[Illiander]

Managed to use emerge from python 3.7 directly to re-emerge python-exec, python 3.9, and portage.

Whew that was scary!

Now on to the gcc update

Link to avoid xkcd/979 errors