Re: Old Gentoo upgrade

emerge -1av sys-apps/portage was my first trial, because I was advised
to do so. When it failed, I decided to do upgrade as I described.
Thanks for your interest.
L. P.

2013/12/28 Norman Rie=DF <[email protected]>:
> Am 27.12.2013 09:48, schrieb Lech Pa=F1kowski:
>> Hello,
>> I was asked to upgrade a Gentoo server. It probably was not updated
>> for a few years. There is 10.0 profile with portage 2.1.6.7. After
>> every 'emerge' there is a suggestion to upgrade to 13.0 profile.
>> I am fairly novice to Gentoo, and this server is constantly being used (=
e-mail).
>>
>> First I started with:
>>   # emerge --sync
>>   # emerge -1av sys-apps/portage
>> There was a message:
>>  emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:2.7".
>> dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.2.7" [ebuild]) (dependency
>> required by "portage" {argument])".
>>
>> Supposing that my installation is too old to upgrade that way I
>> decided to follow strictly method described at
>>    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Updating_old_systems
>>
>> Stage3 was downloaded from
>> http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/releases/x86/current-stage3/)
>> Unfortunately, after the last command from this guide:
>>  # ROOT=3D/mnt/host emerge -1v portage
>> there are many messages such as:
>>
>> !!! Section 'gentoo' in repos.conf has location attribute set to
>> nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage'
>> !!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute set to
>> nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage'
>> !!! Invalid Repository Location (not a dir): '/usr/portage'
>> ....
>> !!! /etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably
>> prevent most merges.
>> !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/
>>
>> I felt completly lost. I found repos.config only in
>> /mnt/build/usr/share/portage/config, but there is no 'x-portage'
>> section.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with this guide?
>> May I ask for any hint what to do next, and more generally - how to do
>> the upgrade in the safest possible way?
>>
>> English is a foreign language for me, so please forgive my language
>> mistakes (if any).
>>
>> Every remark will be highly appreciated.
>> With many thanks in advance,
>> Leszek Pankowski
>>
>
> Did you really used # emerge -1av sys-apps/portage?
> Because the guide tells otherwise: #ROOT=3D/mnt/host emerge -1av portage
>
> Norman
>