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homosapien99
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 Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 2:11 am Post subject: Can't run "emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" |
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Hello, I'm trying to setup Gentoo for SPARC. In the handbook it asks me to do run
| Code: | | emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources |
however this gives me this error:
| Quote: | The current version of portage supports EAPI '5'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. |
How do I fix this? I've looked a lot online and I can't find an answer. Nothing I've done has come close to fixing it. This is on the livecd for reference. |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage |
emerge -1 portage |
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homosapien99
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The current version of portage supports EAPI '5'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.
(dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.3.66-r1" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "portage" [argument])
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
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jburns
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| If your using the multilib stage 3 download it has a date of 2014-12-01 which is old. The non-multilib stage 3 download has a date of 2019-05-26. |
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homosapien99
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| Well the handbook says that "Those who are just starting out with Gentoo should not choose a no-multilib tarball unless it is absolutely necessary." Is it really necessary that I should switch to the non-multilib one, if that's what you're implying? |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 3:02 am Post subject: |
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If your portage is five years out of date you must find intermediate ebuilds and tarballs and work your way up the chain. I wish that old versions of these important packages were kept, but I have no control over the devs. I'm just another user like you.
It sounds like multilib on SPARC is no longer supported. |
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homosapien99
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| Alright, I'll use the non-multilib one |
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Hu
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| Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| The advice to prefer multilib is mainly important to amd64, where it's somewhat common to encounter proprietary software that was never rebuilt for 64-bit mode. If you will be using only open source packages, multilib is less useful to you. |
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argen
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| Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| And if you absolutely need 32 bit libraries/binaries in the future it is possible to migrate to multilib with crossdev, you aren't completely locked in to no-multilib. Just a thought. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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homosapien99,
Get the stage3 and minimal CD at that link.
Going from EAPI5 to EAPI7 is a Gentoo learning opportunity you can avoid if you are doing a fresh install.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Portage & Programming to Gentoo on Sparc.
It fits better here.
The SPARC profiles are
| profiles.desc: | # SPARC Profiles
sparc default/linux/sparc/13.0 exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/gnome exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/13.0/developer exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/17.0 exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/17.0/desktop exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/17.0/desktop/gnome exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd exp
sparc default/linux/sparc/17.0/developer exp |
So /no-multilib/ is not an option. When I used to run a U10, it was a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userland.
The 64 bit userland halved the number of CPU registers, since SPARC puts two together to make 64 bit registers.
I know work on multilib was started but as there is no profile, is not available today.
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