{"id":516,"date":"2009-05-12T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T09:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-05-12T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T10:38:48","slug":"upgrading-a-gentoo-box-that-hasnt-been-upgraded-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/upgrading-a-gentoo-box-that-hasnt-been-upgraded-since-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"upgrading a gentoo box that hasn’t been upgraded since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was given root today in a gentoo box that nobody had upgraded since 2007. As expected the “emerge –sync; emerge -uDavt world” showed a lot of blockages.<\/p>\n

I tried to solve each one but I got stuck while trying to upgrade portage 2.1.3.9 to 2.1.6.11. In order to upgrade portage I had to upgrade sandbox, but sandbox couldn’t be ugraded correctly due to portage 2.1.3.9 being unable to handle .tar.lzma files.
\nThe box had sandbox-1.2 installed and it was unable to upgrade to sandbox-1.6. The error was:<\/p>\n

unpack sandbox-1.6.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Upgrading lzma-utils, tar and a few other packages did not work. In the end I edited the sandbox-1.6-r2.ebuild and changed the src_unpack function from:
\nsrc_unpack() {
\n unpack ${A}
\n cd \"${S}\"
\n epatch \"${FILESDIR}\"\/${P}-disable-qa-static.patch
\n epatch \"${FILESDIR}\"\/${P}-disable-pthread.patch
\n epatch \"${FILESDIR}\"\/0001-libsandbox-handle-more-at-functions.patch
\n}
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

To:
\nsrc_unpack() {
\n unpack ${A}
\n cd \/var\/tmp\/portage\/sys-apps\/sandbox-1.6-r2\/
\n tar --lzma -xvf sandbox-1.6.tar.lzma
\n mv sandbox-1.6\/ work\/
\n cd \"${S}\"
\n epatch \"${FILESDIR}\"\/${P}-disable-qa-static.patch
\n epatch \"${FILESDIR}\"\/${P}-disable-pthread.patch
\n epatch \"${FILESDIR}\"\/0001-libsandbox-handle-more-at-functions.patch
\n}<\/code><\/p>\n

Then:
\ncd \/usr\/portage\/sys-apps\/sandbox\/; ebuild sandbox-1.6-r2.ebuild manifest<\/code><\/p>\n

After this edit, sandbox emerged properly, so portage emerged properly too. Everything else worked as expected…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was given root today in a gentoo box that nobody had upgraded since 2007. As expected the “emerge –sync; emerge -uDavt world” showed a lot of blockages. I tried to solve each one but I got stuck while trying to upgrade portage 2.1.3.9 to 2.1.6.11. In order to upgrade portage I had to upgrade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[601,595,88,86,87,85],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux","tag-gentoo","tag-linux","tag-lzma","tag-portage","tag-sandbox","tag-upgrade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t