Converting Manifest2 to Manifest11. Converting Manifest2 to Manifest1 This procedure is intended for use as an upgrade path for systems that have a 2.0.x version of sys-apps/portage installed. It will convert a portage tree from Manifest2 format to Manifest1 format so that it is suitable for use by 2.0.x versions of sys-apps/portage. It is only necessary to perform this procedure if a !!! No package digest file found error occurs when attempting to install any and all packages. A script named manifest221 is located in the files directory of the sys-apps/portage package. In order to run the script, type python /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/manifest221 where /usr/portage is substituted with the real location of the portage tree if it is somewhere other than /usr/portage. The script will take a few minutes to run and it is normal for it to produce some 'aux_get' error messages that can be ignored as long as they do not apply to packages that are needed to upgrade portage. If your currently installed version of python is less than 2.3.6-r2 then there is a python-updater blocker that complicates the update procedure (see bug 178490). The recommended way to get around this blocker is to force installation of python-2.3.6-r2 by using the --nodeps option. This package does not have stable keywords so you may need to run echo =dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords in order to unmask it. After that, run emerge -p =python-2.3.6-r2 and you should see the blocker from bug 178490. Newer versions of portage will automatically resolve this blocker, but you will have to use the --nodeps option to override the blocker since you have an old version of portage. Run emerge --oneshot --nodeps =python-2.3.6-r2 and python should update successfully. After that, run emerge portage to update to a newer version of portage (including it's dependencies). Finally, after upgrading from portage-2.0.x to >=portage-2.1, you will need to run emerge --metadata since portage-2.1 uses a new file format for the metadata. The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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