Upgrading multiple packages may lead to interesting results especially if the queue has not finished yet or the fails with an error! Apparently, there are…
Tag: portage
Gentoo – UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\xc4’ in position 83: ordinal not in range(128)
Recently emerging package =dev-lang/go-1.13.4 under Gentoo failed on one of our virtual servers with: The above log shows that the emerge fails in the installation…
emerge – ERROR: 17.1 migration has not been performed – upgrade from 13 to 17.1
When upgrading to 17.1 profile you need to perform additional steps to get to a healthy Gentoo portage system using profile 17.1. Here what we…
Failed to install sys-apps/portage – Called pkg_preinst – portage._compat_upgrade.default_locations
Recently there was a problem with one compute node servers, which Gentoo (in fact, the chroot environment had not been updated for 3 years) could…
Fix your broken or old portage in Gentoo, fix the emerge command
Using Gentoo for servers and chroots it might happen to deal with old and not regularly updated Gentoo environment, which in some cases is completely…
portage is blocked by “the current version of portage supports EAPI ‘6’. You must upgrade”
We’ve synced the portage tree before upgrading our old portage package (big mistake! always upgrade the portage package before sync) and then do the sync….