Re: Python 3.13 and massive USE flag changes.

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From: Michael <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Python 3.13 and massive USE flag changes.
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:27:59 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Sunday, 7 June 2026 09:00:46 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> On 6/6/26 5:06 AM, Dale wrote:
> > If I read your reply correctly, that is what you are saying.  I
> > should be able to skip from current OS before the switch directly
> > to new python after all stages of the upgrade path using binaries
> > from the chroot. The key word being should of course.  ;-)
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-)
> 
> Just in case someone else does their updates in a chroot or similar
> environment.  In the chroot, I did the complete safer upgrade process
> in the news item, except --depclean.  During that I had to remove
> elogviewer as it doesn't seem to have python 3.14 support yet.  I
> then copied the binaries over to my main install and did a emerge
> -aukDN world.  I made sure it had all binaries available, total
> packages and total binaries is the same.  I did get a failure of
> portage itself during the upgrade process.

Was portage in the chroot system and the main OS in sync, or had you ran 
'emerge --sync' at different times on each system?


> I updated portage by
> itself and it updated without error.  I guess something was out of
> sync during the upgrade so I'd recommend upgrading portage before
> doing a emerge -aukDN world just to give it a jump start.

Was portage updated successfully on the main OS using the chrooted 
binary, or was it built afresh from source?

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