Hey all,
As the template provided by VPSVille for the Gentoo install is really out of date, it takes a couple extra steps to get it upgraded to a functional state. I thought I'd post the steps required here in case someone needs them...
1)
At this point you will get a notice saying your version of portage is out of date, so run:
2)
You will need to upgrade the system profile now to something in the 10.x series. I would suggest the default 10.0 profile
3)
This will show you the available profiles
4)
You now need to update the working environment
5) env-update && source /etc/profile
Attempting to update portage at this point will give you a really frustrating circular error about blocked packages:
[blocks B ] >=dev-lang/python-2.6.6:2.6 (">=dev-lang/python-2.6.6:2.6" is blocking sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13)
[blocks B ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.9 ("<sys-apps/portage-2.1.9" is blocking dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1)
The best way of fixing this is to manually build python:
wget http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2
cd /
tar xfpj root/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2
rm /usr/bin/python
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.1 /usr/bin/python
You also now need to manually rebuild portage:
cd
wget http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.24.tbz2
cd /
tar xfpj root/portage-2.1.9.24.tbz2
Now that that's done, lets update python:
And finally, now we can go in and upgrade portage to the latest version:
This will update a whole whack of packages, but after this you should be good to go and update the rest of the system packages.
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